# Harrison Wu

> Software Engineer at Descript

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Descript
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Swoop, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Swoop, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer, Ridesharing @ Ridecell
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Frontend Engineering Intern, Ridesharing @ Ridecell
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Associate Instructor, Software Engineering @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Back End Engineer, FourCourses @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Optimized query speeds using Apache Cassandra database clustering and key indexing
 • Implemented horizontal scaling of servers using Nginx load-balancing, simultaneously achieving 0% request error rate and increasing request times from 5000 ms to 2500 ms
 • Increased load speeds 100 percent for peak traffic listings using Redis Cache to bypass database querying
 • Stress-tested service using New Relic and Loader.io to identify bottlenecks, reaching final target of 1000 RPS

### Full Stack Engineer, MusicCast @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Developed single page music player using React, Express.js, MongoDB and Spotify API
 • Interacted with Spotify API to enable web playback capabilities and acquire track details within web browser
 • Constructed visual display dependent on beat count from Spotify audio track analysis

### Full Stack Engineer, WhereBnB @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Created a dynamic single page application using React to build integrated components bundled with Webpack
 • Built RESTful API following CRUD operations to interact with MongoDB
 • Deployed fully merged web-application to AWS using multiple EC2 micro-instances
 • Containerized components with Docker for quick and hassle-free updates following deployment phase
 • Optimized mobile application load speeds from 7s to 3.9s using Brotli compression with gzip fallback
 • Followed TDD, utilizing Jest-Enzyme, resulting in production ready build


## Education
### Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Economic and Mathematics B.A in Statistical Sciences Minor
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/harrison
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harrison/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20