# Edward Lu

> Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/edwardlu

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States
- Working on building backend services which leverage AI image generation to create customer experiences (Typescript).
- Built prototype which composed videos in the cloud based on instruction file, which later became a project with a team of engineers working on it. Implemented native video and audio mixing with ffmpeg (C++, C#, Typescript)

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States
-Member of the Clipchamp to OneDrive integration team. Tech lead in the implementation of the V1 of the Clipchamp landing page for the Clipchamp business app in OneDrive, responsible for driving 30% of the traffic to the Clipchamp business app. (React, Typescript)
-Implemented hardware accelerated video transcoding in backend service using Nvidia's video codec SDK. Improved video transcoding performance by 5x. (C++, C#)
-Designed and implemented backend APIs which allowed DASH streaming of videos directly from Zip files (C#)

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Redmond WA
- Photos cloud team. Working on cloud microservices which supports the photos app.
- Built web apps with React.js and Typescript for Microsoft Stream

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yelp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Developed the UI and back end for a new email which gets sent to thousands of customers on a daily basis and supports over 10 different languages.
- Worked on features in all parts of the software stack using Python, Cheetah, JavaScript (Clojure.js), HTML and CSS.
- Wrote extensive unit and integration tests for all new features and fixes using Pytest for python and mocha/chai for JavaScript.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Rubrik, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Researched and implemented centralized logging system using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana which stored and analyzes over 2 billion lines of log data and displayed in searchable UI. This made searching through logs much easier and helped identify customer issues.
- Worked on feature which encrypts terabytes of data as they are being retrieved from third party source
- Wrote code to collect real time data from distributed application and send to stat analyzing tool.
Technologies: Scala, C++, Angular.js, Elasticsearch, AWS(EC2, S3),

### Software Engineer Intern @ Symphony Commerce
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Developed feature to periodically synchronize product inventory data between multiple warehouses and the application database. 
- Enhanced data uploading tool to support uploading millions of rows of CSV data to the database.
- Wrote extensive unit and integration tests using ScalaTest framework. 
Technologies: Java, Scala, Hibernate, Spring, AWS(EC2), Angular.js

### Moblie/Java Software Engineer Intern @ Ultimate Software (Formerly EmployTouch)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Developed features on native Android application utilizing custom widgets, web services, JSON parsing, and data persistence via SQLite.
- Developed features for database driven back end server written in Java (Hibernate, Spring, GWT).
- Gained solid knowledge of relational databases and ORM.
Technologies: Android, Java, Hibernate, Spring, GWT, SQLite.

### Agile Engineer Intern @ Xtreme Labs (now Pivotal Labs)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Developed and maintained features on native Android and iOS applications utilizing third party libraries from Github, web services, and JSON parsing.
- Developed mobile web applications using HTML, CSS, Javascript (JQuery), Ruby (Ruby on Rails).
- Worked on RESTful web service which supported a front end application with millions of users, using Java with Spring MVC.
Technologies: Java, Android, iOS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Ruby on Rails


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22