# Elizabeth Chu

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/elizabethchu

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
August 2024 - Present
Staff Software Engineer
- Fleet Orchestration and Optimization: build systems to schedule tasks on cars and direct them to appropriate places at the right times.

January 2022 - August 2024
Senior Software Engineer, Mission Planning Tech Lead
- Lead a team of 5+ engineers to build systems that configure, validate, schedule, enforce, and collect progress on driving missions on a fleet of thousands of vehicles and personnel.
- Work cross functionally with PMs, ProdOps, and Planning to build supply optimization tooling to increase fleet efficiency, using Angular Typescript and C++.
- Remotely mentor a newly established sister engineering team in Poland.

### Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer @ YouTube
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
October 2020 - January 2022: Senior SWE-SRE IV
- Co-Tech Lead for YouTube Discovery SRE, a team of 12 engineers.
- Lead for machine learning services and frameworks, user data reliability, personalization systems.

March 2019 - October 2020: SWE-SRE III
- Drove the migration of personalized services at YouTube from monolithic frameworks into more modular infrastructure.
- Optimized user data serving at YouTube from abuse protection to soft stickiness cache optimization.

July 2017 - March 2019: SWE-SRE II
- Productionized machine learning backends for YouTube's homepage and recommendation systems.
- Automated release processes for YouTube's homepage and Search services.

### Flight Software Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pasadena, California
Built a minimal compiler that translates custom user commands to binary code.
Conduct FIT tests on flight software modules for the NISAR satellite.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ USC Medical School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, CA
Implemented a parallel system for processing large stem cell databases.
Write and maintain custom data analysis programs for 12+ hours a week using Python.

Lab Website: http://ronglulab.usc.edu/
Publication: http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(16)30505-8

### Research Intern @ Academia Sinica
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### High School
Taipei American School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-chu-b7b91763

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Last updated: 2026-03-22