# Michael Wu > Result driven engineer building tomorrow ;) learning and growing everyday Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelwu2 Always self-motivated, driven to challenge the status quo, expanding and applying what I know in projects. Check out my website at https://www.michaelwu.io/ ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ VIA Technologies, Inc. Jan 2022 – Present | Fremont, California, United States Leading ROAR-GoKart, turning GoKart into autonomous racing platform, in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Full stack dev from turning bolts to writing algorithms! Checkout our Demo: https://youtu.be/g7ulVKDFq3I Apply same technology and experience in F1 race cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFM0oobp-o ### Software Engineer @ TikTok Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States Working high impact projects in Privacy & Security. Full stack dev (mobile + backend) with experience in big data, high throughput, and highly available systems under micro-service architecture. ### Graduate Researcher @ UC Berkeley FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | UC Berkeley - Cross school collaboration between UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and U of Hawaii for EVGrandPrix and Indy Autonomous Challenge. eVGrandPrix: https://engineering.purdue.edu/evGrandPrix/ Indy: https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/ - Led the development of perception and simulation module - Experience with LiDAR, Cameras, GPS, and other sensors. - Experience with Carla -- cutting edge autonomous driving simulator - Full stack robotics -- ROS, control, perception, planning, etc ### 2020 & 2021 Summer Intern @ General Motors Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Detroit Metropolitan Area - Working in the CCMS Group. More info will come later ### Software Engineer Intern @ Berkeley Lab Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, USA - Implementing and consuming OPTiMaDe API in Python, compliant with the JSON API 1.0 spec, enabling Interoperability among databases. Github: https://github.com/wuxiaohua1011/optimade-python-tools - Designed query parsing pipline and custom parsing syntax using Lark, and Python-to-MongoDB query translator using PQL - Renovating and modulating the Materials Project internal framework - Design and implement automation for data synchronization pipeline with Google and NOMAD ### Software Engineer @ Inteligent Racing Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States - Full-stack iOS application for autonomous RC car for K12 education. - Involved technologies such as Bluetooth(BLE), Wifi, SwiftUI, ARKit, Embedded Systems (Arduino), Websockets, and etc. - Enabled low latency, high bandwidth data transmission with other services and project functions. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Berkeley FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley - Published paper Affordance Analysis of Virtual and Augmented Reality Mediated Communication - Developed ATLAS Annotation Tool, a software for point cloud annotation and providing semantic meaning - Facilitated Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) DeCal course with 40+ students - Led the ROAR development in sensor fusion, planning, and control with experience in embedded systems (Jetson Nano, Arduino, etc) ### Co-Founder/Board of Director @ Entrepreneurs@Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA - Website development and maintenance - Developer for the Mentorship platform that ease the connection between mentors and startup founders - Outreach for speakers and collaborations - Technology Committee Lead (team of three) ### Undergraduate Researcer @ Berkeley Deep Drive Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA - Worked in a team of 6 with Prof. Joseph E Gonzalez to explore the possibility of using the least information to achieve automonous driving - This project is part of the Berkeley RISE Lab - Worked on the Erdos Project, responsible for implementing Lane Detection, used knowledge based on George Sung's Udacity Repository ### Exchange Student @ Osaka University Lab Research Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan - Laparoscopic Bipolar Forceps Positioning in Stereo Video for Robotic Surgery Training. - Object tracking and depth information sensing from stereo frames using OpenCV and built DIY stereo Camera for testing - Github link: https://github.com/wuxiaohua1011/stereo_image_to_point_cloud_japan ### Public Relations Director @ Berkeley China Summit Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley - Secured > $10000 sponsorship - Secured multiple high-profile speakers ranging from academia to industry - Worked with a team of 8 to collaboratively reach out to clubs and media for publicity ### Member @ Pioneers in Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California - 在网站管理的四人小组合作 - 更新了工程先锋的网站 ### Intern @ OptiWi-fi Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | County Dublin, Ireland - Automated database update in real time - Updated and created algorithms to efficiently and effectively visualize raw WLAN data in realtime - Increased database query efficiency ### General Member Board @ Data Science Society at Berkeley Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California 组织与在各种活动中志愿 例如 2017 伯克利信息技术峰会 ### Intern @ Equal Pay Co Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area 用PHP, Javascript, CSS, html做用户端网站，运用Redis以及亚马逊网络服务做终端数据处理以及储存 ### Badminton Coach @ Star Badminton Academy Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Teach the fundamentals of badminton to kids under the age of 10 in groups of 10 to 15 students. - All income used to further my badminton skills, such as taking private lessons and buying supplies. ### Event Coordinator @ Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Organize fundraising and publicizing events for the PRMH. - Though a paid position, I declined a salary because I think it is my duty to payback to the community by working at PRMH for free. ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical Engineer and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Computer Science and Business Pasadena City College ### Certificate in Business Administration and Management, General University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-wu-50417610a --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelwu2 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelwu2/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11