# River Wu

> Software Engineer @ Tenstorrent. UofM alumni.

Beman Project contributor, pushing C++ Standard forward.

Speaker @cppnow @cppcon 2025

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/riverwu

## Work Experience
### Event Organizer @ Bay Area C++
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
help organized:
Feb 6th: How to Not Crash on Mars: Type-Safe Linear Algebra in

### Software Engineer @ Tenstorrent
Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Runtime

### Software Engineer @ The Beman Project
Jan 2024 – Present
Contributed to C++ standardization efforts by providing feedback and patches to align external contributions with project standards for branding, documentation, testing, and infrastructure
Developed an automated, portable code quality enforcement system using pre-commit, markdown-lint, codespell, clang-format, and custom scripts, integrated with GitHub Actions for seamless code reviews and auto-fixes
Customized GitHub Codespaces using Docker to streamline development by integrating advanced tools, reducing entry barriers, and enabling rapid prototyping
Designed a robust CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to validate code across 4 C++ standards, 3 compilers, and 3 platforms. Optimized for parallel execution, delivering feedback within 2 minutes across 40 jobs.
Implemented and synchronized CMake presets to minimize setup time and simplify development across all packages
Implemented  inplace_vector with constexpr support for compile-time execution
Developed comprehensive tests against reference implementations to ensure robustness and production readiness.
Adapted the library for older C++ versions by simulating advanced constructs, broadening its usability by ensuring backwards compatibility
Designed and implemented microbenchmarking library used to demonstrate inplace_vector outperforms std::vector at NYC++ conference live tech talk with a live audience of 100+ attendees.

### Education Mentor for Computer Organization @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Education Mentor for CS1 @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Education Mentor for CS1 @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Research with MIT on health application @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Michigan

### Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/river-wu-29a25724b

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Last updated: 2026-04-11