# Kelvin Lu

> Software Engineer at Chalk

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kelvinlu

Building cool things @ Chalk currently!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Chalk
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Amplitude
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Amplitude
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Amplitude
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Working in the Data to AI lab in CSAIL to build a collaborative data science platform.

### LA/TA @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA
Assistant for 6.S198 - Deep Learning Practicum, a class that prepares students to carry out applied projects in deep learning.

Responsibilities included leading workshops, writing curriculum, grading assignments, and providing mentorship to students for their final projects.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Amplitude Analytics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Student Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Working in the Computer Graphics Lab on a synthetic dataset for self-driving cars. Specifically, making realistic models of pedestrians.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitch
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with the VOD Team at Twitch to implement a prototype of a voiceover feature.

### Software Development + Research Intern @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Worked with the CUE Lab on Engage@IBM - a site to increase employee engagement 

Led a small team (software engineer + designer) to design + implement a game to increase site engagement.

Web Dev: Used React + Redux for front-end, Java TomEE + MongoDB for back-end.

### Full Stack Developer @ Room2Learn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
Worked as a summer web development intern at room2learn, a Harvard-based startup focused on classroom spaces. Launched website at the end of summer, and onboarded for fall of 2016. 

Worked with AWS, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Semantic UI to create a reactive website at www.room2learn.org

### Data Analytics Intern @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
Worked in the Cognitive User Experience Lab at IBM Watson Health. Built a UI to hand-classify email lines, as well as a playground to test ML techniques. 

Used Java Tomcat, PostGreSQL, and JQuery.

### Research Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics
Worked in the Ram Research Group in MIT's Research Laboratories of Electronics (RLE). Characterized retroreflector optical waveguides to test for band-pass filter behaviors. Also characterized Silicon-Germanium Photodetectors for responsivity.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### High School
Mission San Jose High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23