# Daiwei Lu

> Roblox, Ex-Meta/Oculus

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/daiwei

Staff Software Engineer in Meta (previously Facebook). Tech Lead of teams in Facebook and Oculus. Led development of zero to one and mature projects and products. Including OS level Casting, Video Recording, and Messaging features on Oculus (Meta) Quest 1 and 2, various performance measurement frameworks and performance improvements, mobile analytics framework, video publisher experience, OTT video subscription service.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
• Build cross platforms product infras for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows platforms for Roblox client.
• Optimize performance Roblox client such as TTI and app size through low level OS APIs with C/C++.

### Technical Consultant @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Technical consultancy for building full stack product MVP, and integration with AI agent framework and LLM infra.
• Unity game development and integration.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, California, United States
• Tech Lead of 3 VR teams with 5 to 10 engineers across 3 years. Primary tech stacks: C++, Android and Android Open Source Project, Java, Kotlin, React Native, WebRTC, Real Time Network Stack, Linux System.
• Led team maintaining and improving OS level Casting, Video Recording experiences that capture 40% monthly active users of Meta Quest 1 and 2.
• Led team migrated Casting, Video Recording off legacy tech stacks. Improved p95 casting connection time from 34s to 5s and casting success rate from 89% to 95% on between Meta Quest and Oculus Android app.
• Contributed to unblocking Meta Quest Pro launch by improving casting performance in high CPU usage scenarios.
• Integrated mobile analysis and performance framework on Meta Quest with Meta’s infrastructure in 2021.
• Integrated and launched Facebook Messenger to Meta Quest as an OS level feature in 2020.
• Release captain for one major OS release for Meta Quest 1 and 2 in 2022.
• Mentor and Intern Director for 11 Intern Managers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California, United States
• Tech Lead of video publisher experience and OTT video subscription service products. Primary tech stacks: Hack, React, JavaScript.
• Led team of 8 engineers (including iOS, Android, Front End and Backend) and launched OTT video subscription service on Facebook platform in 2019.
• Developed and launched experiences for video creators and publishers on Facebook platform with more than 100 millions of month active users.
• Build visualization frameworks for Mobile Funnel Analytics framework, which helped 15+ Facebook teams improve business flows such as payment and subscription.

### Software Engineer @ Curiosity Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Rosslyn, VA
• Introduced Kubernetes and Docker based containerized infrastructure.
• Developed UI for PubNation.com that gives users powerful and beautiful searching and analytics tools.
• Developed JS library with cross-browser compatibility that is embedded on websites with billions of pageviews.
• Introduced automated cross-browser testing. Worked on various projects, tech stacks and concepts, such as Chrome extension, Ember.js, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and serverless architecture.

### Graduate Assistant - Java Developer @ University of Maryland
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | College Park, Maryland
• Developed and maintained web applications using Spring, HTML, CSS and a job scheduling system using Java.
• Performed testing and evaluation of prototype and production web applications.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Curiosity Media
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Rosslyn, VA
• Developed UIs using SVG, Flash, and HTML5 audio API for various products.
• Worked on projects that are using Node.js, Backbone.js, LESS, Jekyll, and MongoDB.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Information Management
University of Maryland
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22