# Wending Lu

> Product Designer, working on something new

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wending

Product designer with experience creating end-to-end solutions, approaching design with empathy.

## Work Experience
### Founding Product Designer @ Duranta
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Building something beautiful

### Founding Product Designer @ Peerbound
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Created the design system, brand, and shipped core product flows of an AI customer voice platform from zero. We signed our first customer contracts in this time.

### Team Lead @ Datadog
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Lead designer for Data Science, AI, and new LLM initiatives

### Senior Product Designer @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Designing our Data Science and AI platform

### Product Designer @ Datadog
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Founding Product Designer @ Aurora Solar
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Founding designer for the now operating system of the solar industry.
Created (and coded) the first design system, led user research and design for a diverse feature suite: 3D modeling interfaces, financial models and visualizations, document editors, and AI features

### Human Computer Interaction TA @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA
Taught and led sections in the core HCI series, heading studios and teaching students to think critically about user needs and test assumptions.

### PM Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA
Designed, researched, and shipped new features for PowerPoint 365 as part of Office's cloud push.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Peek.com
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Designed and created a chart library with D3.js for a new business product offering. Also created internal visualization tools and overlays to augment content marketing decisions.

### iOS Development Intern @ Quark Games
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Created a new in-game store experience for a flagship iOS game


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction)
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction)
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wending-lu
- Portfolio: https://wending.lu

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Source: https://flows.cv/wending
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wending/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29