# Wai Wu

> Engineer at Databricks

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

I have operated in a variety of companies from big tech to startups (seed and series A) and scale-ups

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks Mosaic Research
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Core team that built platform to train DBRX - an open, state-of-the-art, general-purpose LLM, using 3072 NVIDIA H100s.   

Now building performant inference engines

### Technical Lead Manager @ Rutter
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Hired and managed a team of 8 for a year.

Built lots of ETL pipelines and foundational parts of data ingestion platform.

Series A raise: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/a16z-backs-rutters-goal-of-being-plaid-for-commerce.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rutter
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined Rutter at seed stage as 4th hire, helped grow company, build products. Learnt to run a high scale production data ingestion system with very few people.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
•Django feed architecture for Instagram Shop Tab as part of Instagram Home Screen Redesign.

•ETL for imagery sourcing and ranking on Instagram Shop Tab

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, California
Facebook Creator App (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/facebook-creator-app/)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Garena Online
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Singapore
Scaled up internal tooling in Southeast Asia's biggest consumer internet company

IPO: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/23/sea-files-for-a-1-billion-u-s-ipo/


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Statistics and Finance
The Wharton School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wai-wu-68b99a76

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Last updated: 2026-04-05