# Eric Hu

> Front End Engineer at William Sonoma

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erichu

Email: eric.jie.hu@gmail.com

Hey there! I'm Eric Hu and I have a passion for advances in game design, development, and AI. I also enjoy frontend website design work and implementation. I got my Masters Degree in Computer Science focusing in AI at UC San Diego and my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science : Game Design at UC Santa Cruz. 

My Goal: To strive for better user interaction and engagement that constitutes towards the whole gameplaying experience.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Facilitron
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Gatos, CA
At Facilitron, I worked as a Front-End Developer focused on building intuitive, responsive, and performant user interfaces for a large-scale facility management and scheduling platform used by schools and public agencies across the U.S.

- Developed and maintained core UI features using modern JavaScript frameworks, improving usability and reducing user friction across key workflows.
- Collaborated closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and quality assurance to translate requirements into clean, scalable front-end solutions.
- Optimized page load speed and component performance, enhancing the overall user experience for both district administrators and community users.
- Implemented reusable UI components and design system patterns to improve consistency and accelerate development across the platform.
- Participated in code reviews and contributed to front-end best practices, ensuring maintainability, accessibility, and high-quality code.
- Helped troubleshoot and immediately resolve UI/UX issues in production, improving stability and customer satisfaction.

### Front End Engineer @ Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Designed, implemented, and published responsive e-commerce desktop and mobile pages following professional coding and design principles in HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript/React, and Vue
• Managed Github, multiple testing environments, and ticket board for organized source control, quality assurance, and public releases in close collaboration with site managers and UI/UX designers
• Optimized source code and implemented features and components to increase consistency and efficiency throughout all engineering departments and services
• Delivered agile projects on time and overachieving quality standards, contributing to overall team success

### Game Developer @ ShatterPointGames
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
• Collaborated with 4 other independent developers, managing the prospects of design, control architecture, implementation, and business ventures
• Led the gameplay AI development for the 2.5D fighting game BreakThrough in Unity and Unreal Engine 4
• Engineered a sophisticated finite state machine AI, using environmental feature weights and complex action selection, taking into consideration the nuanced dynamics inherent in fighting games
• Designed and implemented the official ShatterPointGames website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

### Research Developer @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto
• Designed, developed, and managed the PretermConnect and ColigoWork App for iOS and Android
• Created detailed and interactive mockups in Figma to implementation using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Practiced privacy and security guidelines for high-risk information, ensuring the integrity of sensitive data
• Hosted and presented in a conference for important health organization stakeholders in Pittsburgh
• https://www.pretermconnect.org/

### Researcher @ Games and Playable Media Research Lab, UCSC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
• Conducted studies on the annoying feeling of helplessness in video-games
• Researched and implemented applications of A-star Assistance AI algorithms for difficult platformer games in Unity Game Engine and C#

### Researcher @ LINQS Learning Lab, UCSC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
• Assisted graduate researchers with conducting primary and secondary source research
• Explored applications of Probabilistic Soft Logic and Hinge-Loss Markov Random Fields for extensive pattern prediction

### Summer Intern @ Facilitron
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Los Gatos
• Managed a facility reservation system to utilize school space for groups and companies to use
• Engaged in positive and professional customer service

### Swim Instructor @ Northwest YMCA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino
• Prepared multiple classes of 3-6 elementary/middle school students to teach the essentials of swimming, water safety, teamwork, and communication skills


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-hu-505267167

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Last updated: 2026-04-01