# Chao Lu

> Software Enginner at eDriving®

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chaolu

## Work Experience
### Software Enginner @ eDriving®
Jan 2020 – Present | San Jose

### Software Engineer @ Apartment List
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco

### Software Engineer - iOS @ Asurion
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Mateo

### Android Developer @ CARDFREE
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco

### Co-op student @ SnapLogic
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo
Work on the big data integration group, try to integrate spark framework to company’s platform, and analyze the performance of a developing product by reproducing Amplab’s benchmark (including Hive, Impala, Spark, Cascading) in local hadoop cluster.

### Graduate Student @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Operating systems
Parallel Sort a big data file with limited RAM size in a reasonable fast performance
Using Zookeeper to build distributed application
Implementing in-memory version Hadoop and map-reduce algorithm with fault tolerance

Artificial Intelligence
Using Information Retrieval to Classify Text 
Sentiment Analysis
Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, K-Means clustering implementation in Python

Distributed Software Development
Building a twitter-like hashtag search application, with multiple front end to balance the multi-thread request from client side, and multiple back end to provide fault tolerance, in the relaxed model of strong consistency with election algorithm and also eventual consistency with timestamp mechanism.

Game Engineering
Strategy and defense 3D game on Ogre Platform, using CEGUI, Bullet physics engine and particle system to make a ship war game, inspired by plants vs zombies 3d.

### Software Developer Intern @ Teradici
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Explore the product opportunities in delivering cloud-based applications to mobile devices. Implement the functionality for passing touch gestures and device orientation operations on Android client to the Google Earth application running in a Windows backend.

### Android Developer @ None
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Familiar with Android SDK, exploiting game engine, and establishing database,multithread and data communication protocol
A series of work have been accomplished for the past year, please refer to the next page for
more detailed information

### Research Assistant @ South China University of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | China
Involved into “Business Card” application development project ,mainly responsible for
human-computer interaction research and programming for various platform including iOS
and Android, also use javascript + html + css to implement the webpage

### Exchange student @ Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Paris
Programming for a Pharmaceutical production streamline in collaboration with other colleagues


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
University of San Francisco

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
South China University of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chaolu10

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Last updated: 2026-04-10