# Hank W.

> SWE @ Meta | Prev @ Tesla, Samsung Research, Postman, Amazon, RBC | Engineering Grad @ UWaterloo

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

Hello, thanks for dropping by my profile! Hope you're having a good day! I'm always open to having a conversation and meeting new people! Feel free to send me a request to connect, an email to hank.j.wu@gmail.com or hankwtech@gmail.com. You can also schedule a Google meets call with me here: https://calendly.com/hank-w

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Building the Metaverse!

### Director Of Internal Operations @ Hack the North
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer Intern @ FreshBooks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer Intern @ RBC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Created AWS Config Rules and Azure policies to enforce cloud security
• Build an automated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to automate deployments and checks into multiple environments
• Achieved second place at RBC Innovation Challenge, built a Slackbot using Ruby to help employees communicate virtually, demoed to CTO, and deployed to production

### Software Engineer Internship @ RBC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Worked on designing and building version 2 of Debit Card API 
• Refactored Credit Card API to optimize queries and metrics for millions of users
• Developed feedback-based recommendation methods in Go through subsets of prefetches for over 600 users 
• Achieved second place at RBC Battlesnake competition with machine learning snake model

### Linear Induction Motor Team Lead, Mechanical Team Member @ Waterloop
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Leading a team of over 25 students prototyping, designing, and building a linear induction 
   motor creating a new method of transportation to compete in the Hyperloop Competition                            
• Coordinating and working with a variety of teams to integrate software and hardware
   subsystems and create a full-sized functioning linear induction motor (LIM)  
• Programming, configuring, and wiring embedded systems with Magnetometer, Hall Effect
   sensor, Digital Temperature sensor, and Accelerometer to collect data through trial runs

### Machine Learning Engineer @ AVRIL (Autonomous Vehicle Research and Intelligence Lab - University of Waterloo)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Built a facial recognition convolutional neural network using PyTorch with fast.ai and to detect driver state and impaired driving. Generated 100,000 data points by reimplementing both StarGAN and StackGAN (generative adversarial network) on Kaggle datasets 

• Creating a machine learning pipeline to automate the workflow required to train future models

• Working on Data Science and Data Management of training sets used to train autonomous vehicles models. Integrating PostgreSQL with JDBC and MATLAB.

### Software Engineer @ Maple Precision
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

### UWAFT CAV(Connected Autonomous Vehicle) Team Member @ University of Waterloo EcoCAR Team (UWAFT)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Wat
• Programming software and algorithms using C++ in ROS (Robot Operating System) on Linux OS to conduct sensor fusion and sensor diagnostics to achieve SAE level 3 autonomous driving 
• Using MATLAB, Simulink, and Unity to create simulations of our vehicle in order to test it's autonomous capabilities across all possible scenarios
• Conducting FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) with database provided by General Motors, Mobileye, and Bosch Radars 
• Competing in the EcoCAR 3 competition hosted by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy: https://avtcseries.org/ecocar-3-teams-and-vehicle-announced/

### Laboratory Technician @ Surrey Schools (School District #36 Surrey)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Worked as a lab assistant for the science department at Fleetwood Park Secondary School
• Organized chemicals and supplies for experiments using Microsoft Excel to create a database
• Prepared Chemistry, Physics, and Biology experiments and labs for students 
• Planned, Documented and Demonstrated advanced experiments to classes of students


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Honours) in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hank-j-wu

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Last updated: 2026-03-22