# Tianyi Mu

> Staff Software Engineer at Instacart | ex-Google

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tianyimu

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Fulfillment
- Android mobile client

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Google TV

- Android mobile client

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Google Play Movies & TV

- Backend microservices

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Google Play Movies & TV

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
Google Maps
 - Worked on a full-stack web-app project that provides visualization for relations between Google Maps editing workflows

### Peer tutor @ Duke University Academic Resource Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Durham, NC
- Tutored students on course related topics for CS201: Data Structures and Algorithms
- Held weekly office of four hours to help students with programming obstacles on a one-on-one basis

### iOS Developer @ Pinke
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Collaborate with a team to create a course evaluation platform for Chinese college students
- Improve the original idea and study market demand by surveying current Chinese college students
- Design and build an iOS version of the platform using Swift, Sketch, and Leancloud (a Mobile Backend as a service)
- Improve the UI/UX design of the platform based on responses from a group of testers

### UI/UX Designer, Product Analyst @ SoloPro
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Durham, NC
- Worked part-time in the product division of SoloPro, a real estate technology startup that raised $1.1 million in 2015
- Designed, on a team, SoloPro’s new landing page that drove up new customer sign-up rate by 15%
- Conducted interviews to collect feedback from customers to further polish SoloPro’s web pages
- Tested new product features and wrote reports for improvement suggestions.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Information Initiative at Duke
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Processed and organized millions of threads of reservoir characteristics and related weather data using Java, MATLAB, and MySQL
- Investigated the relationship between basin characteristics of reservoirs and the time it takes for precipitation to reach a reservoir
- Presented research progress and findings to Data+ participants and Information Initiative at Duke (iiD) during and after the program
- Discussed and reported new findings periodically to the project mentors and clients

### Rubenstein Library Archival Processing Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Managed and organized the metadata for a collection of thousands of photographs
- Processed and labeled unorganized photographs into groups by identifying their locations taken
- Assisted library’s Visual Materials Processing Archivist for eight hours per week

### Software Engineering Intern @ Tencent
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Implemented a prototype of the Associable Data Analysis System, in Java, that realized the idea of a Status Recorder and confirmed its practicality
- Collaborated with two engineer mentors to examine methods that can improve the analysis ability of the company’s security operation platform
- Gained experience on ways of storing and comparing different types of related data at the same time
- Proposed the idea of a Status Recorder that simplified data comparison by condensing an array of data into one easy-to-compare code


## Education
### BS in Computer Science and Statistical Science
Duke University

### High School
Georgetown Preparatory School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12