# Stella Lu > Software Engineer @ Zoox Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stellalu ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Zoox Jan 2022 – Present Software engineer on the Operational Tools team, 2026 - Present Software engineer on the Perception Labeling & Data Team, 2022 - 2026 - Built and shipped large-scale labeling tools and platforms, including 3D labeling tools, 2D labeling tools, and various internal ML labeling tracking & ML data platforms used throughout Perception - Led user research and partnered with labelers and teams throughout the company to translate needs into scalable tooling and workflows. - Owned mining and labeling for rare, safety-critical classes - Delivered major performance and reliability improvements across labeling and data platforms - Led the introduction of observability across perception data systems by building shared metrics libraries and monitoring dashboards, improving reliability and operational insight across core data pipelines. ### Software Engineer @ Scale AI Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, CA Full-stack software engineer on the 3D Labeling Sensor Fusion team. - Designed and built new experimental pipeline features to revamp and improve existing data annotation pipelines, decreasing labeling time and cost while improving user sentiment - Managed, designed, and executed auditing features - Helped rchitect and refactor data processing infrastructure to improve the speed of data processing, decrease on-call ticket frequency, and streamline the data processing pipeline. - Created customer-facing RESTful APIs and custom integration with internal tooling ### Software Engineer @ Sea Warden Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 I worked with Sea Warden to advance the sustainability and transparency of farmed seafood by developing a system to help seafood farmers monitor their farms and verify collected data. I am responsible for creating and integrating text detection in photos and live video using Google Cloud Vision AI. I have designed cloud computing architecture with Google Cloud Platform to use Google Vision AI and Node.js for the purposes of detecting text from monitoring devices and logs. Google Vision and OpenCV is used to verify text so that farms can prove their commitment to sustainable farming. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area I was a software engineer intern on the Communities Template Platform team on Communities Cloud. During this summer internship, optimized SEO data generation time for websites that support multiple languages. This reduced cron job runtimes from an order of O(n^2) to O(n), minimizing the risk that customer cron jobs would last for hours and block the customer from customizing their websites. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area I was a software engineer intern in Salesforce's Commerce Cloud and was a member of the Public Cloud Infrastructure Team. Over the summer I automated monthly bastion host releases to reduce lead time for over 2000 internal customers. This included automating bastion AWS AMI sharing and AWS encryption key sharing. I also configured continuous integration and continuous development pipelines using Jenkins and Docker to automate build and testing procedures. Throughout this internship I also gained experience with exposing AWS Cloudwatch log groups in Terraform, engaged in Agile ceremonies, including stand-up, story pointing, sprint planning, and backlog grooming, and created and updated team and customer-facing documentation for Bastion AMI releases, Bastion AMI sharing requests, and the Salesforce seasonal release process. ### CS 61A Tutor @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley Led two weekly small-group mentorship groups to provide personalized tutoring for CS 61A "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs." Provided help during office hours, 24/7 support on piazza, and graded coursework. ### Young Members Coordinator @ Mensa New Zealand Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand I planned networking events and gatherings for young members of Mensa New Zealand to foster and support the Mensa community in the Wellington region. ### Intern @ Chamber Music New Zealand Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 I developed and maintained a national database of New Zealand music teachers to simplify and expedite communication between Chamber Music New Zealand, music teachers, and music students. I also analyzed chamber music contest trends by digitizing the national archive and composing contest reports. ### Piano and Violin Tutor @ Goodtime Music Academy Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand I developed individual tutoring plans, provided private weekly lessons for beginner to intermediate level students, and planned and facilitated performance and exam opportunities. ### Programming Tutor @ Grand Training Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand I taught logic and introductory programming concepts, Python and Java fundamentals, coached students through the planning and implementation of basic graphical games in Processing, and encouraged a deeper understanding of and enthusiasm for computers in a school holiday program. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stella-lu --- Source: https://flows.cv/stellalu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stellalu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29