# Daniel Au

> Engineer at Yurts AI

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

I'm a backend software engineer at Yurts AI in downtown San Francisco. When I'm not working, I'm usually rock climbing, taking photos, reading, weightlifting, and most importantly, eating.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Yurts AI
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Staff Backend Things

### Senior Software Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Senior Backend Things

### Software Engineer II @ Primer.ai
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Midlevel Backend Things

### Software Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Junior Backend Things

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle
I worked on the Dataswarm infrastructure team and my project was parallelizing a process that compiled task dependencies from workflow files.  I started by first collecting metrics on the process to determine that parallelizing the process would be successful and what the expected speedup would be.  When that was successful, I found a way to partition the workflow files across the clusters of machines and aggregate the output. In addition, I added error checking logic for each child process. Eventually, I brought the runtime down by 65% and allowed for future horizontal scaling.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle
I interned on the Kindle Fire Tablet team and worked on caching for the storefront page. I enabled caching so that reloading the page within a cache's expire time would automatically load from the cache. In addition, I designed a custom Etag for validation so that if the page had not changed even after the cache expired, it could be loaded from the cache. In addition, I generalized the caching technique with aspect oriented programming architecture so that it could be used for other pages.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked on the Systems Manager Team and implemented the Managed App Setting Feature.

### Quality Assurance Engineer Intern @ MobiTV
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Emeryville, California
As a quality assurance engineer intern, I mainly developed automated JUnit scripts for phones and tablets to reduce manual testing.  These scripts checked the UI/UX of the applications and ensured the mobile app was receiving and displaying the correct JSON objects from servers.  In addition, I executed longevity/reliability testing of a media dongle through automated testing and manually tested the general functionality of media dongle (connectivity, pairing, streaming).

### Research Assistant / Front End Web Developer @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Stanford University
As a research assistant, I worked with a professor and graduate students to determine how technology could be utilized in daily life to improve health and hygiene.  I ensured that the experiments tested the correct variables and the collected data was related to human behavior.
As the front end web developer, I designed webpages for mobile application using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielau94

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Last updated: 2026-04-10