# Wendi Yu

> SWE @ Meta | Prev @ Uber

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

Software engineer, always looking for opportunities to learn something new!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
AI Infrastructure, Model Training Orchestration Platform

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
• Implemented POC design for a resource manager, which assigns compute resources to distributed big data compute sessions within Meta AI/Spark infrastructure. Scale of 215M jobs and 15k users daily
• Optimized MySQL database, Thrift network, Java software performance to bring down e2e latency while supporting 10x vertical scale (100k to 1M+ concurrent sessions)
• Gathered metrics and bottleneck data to assess viability and strategic next steps for prototype

### Software Engineer Intern @ Census
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Designed and implemented "save as draft" feature for core product, used by 30+ customer organizations
• Worked directly with technical customers to build SIEM log publishing feature for security-relevant events impacting all users
• Collaborated with PMs, engineers, and designers in design discussions, feature planning, company-wide retrospectives

### Frontend Developer @ Hack the North
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Worked with React, Typescript, and Tailwind to collaboratively implement various public-facing static sites. Implemented animations manually and with various animation libraries.
• Built interactive, animated hacker applications tool used to submit 8000+ applications
• Built RSVP tool and integrated with our backend to support 1000+ hackers in real time 
• Participated in design reviews and discussions, as well as process and project retrospectives

### Software Engineer Intern @ Uber
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Designed software and process to support product boosting, which complements ML-based product ordering along Uber's core ride request flow. Impacts ~525 million ride requests per month worldwide
• Restructured boosting configuration to allow for better governance, monitoring, and data aggregation. Oversaw migration of ~100 currently boosted products between configurations.
• Iteratively designed and implemented UI/UX flow to reshape internal processes for requesting product boosts
• Consulted with operations, product, backend engineers and ML engineers to scope, design, and deliver tooling over the course of the internship

### Software Subsystem Lead @ Waterloo Rocketry
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
• Led subteam meetings to organize projects, helped set/maintain deadlines, provided technical advice
• Onboarding new team members and assigning budgeted amounts of work to ensure engagement, while balancing project deadlines
• Interfacing with other subteams to coordinate knowledge transfer and scheduling for joint projects

### Server @ The Keg Steakhouse + Bar
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Crafted a friendly and welcoming experience for new and returning guests
• Communicated efficiently with large restaurant team under fast-paced, high-stress conditions
• Maintained specific product knowledge about a wide variety of seasonally rotating food and drink selections

### Full Stack Developer @ Jobox.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Designed and implemented roles-based permissions system in Java/SQL to externalize job
 dispatching web application for our largest business partner
• Built backend REST APIs to deliver custom SEO/geocoding data for generated user micro-sites
• Rewrote complex updates system (spanning Hibernate, Sagas, Redux, and Algolia code) to
 provide greater granularity for internal and public-facing tooling

### Full Stack Developer @ Uptake
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
TypeScript | NestJS | TypeORM | Angular | SQL | .NET | VBScript | Sencha
 Redesigned REST APIs using TypeORM/NestJS to eliminate repeated code accross 50+ classes, led
 refactoring discussion across 3 engineering teams
• Diagnosed user-reported issues across 7 web applications using 8+ languages/frameworks
 Improved SQL performance, resolved deadlocks, integrated browsers/languages across applications
• Led Agile sprint as scrum master, reprioritized work to handle emergency hotfix tickets

### Software Developer @ Tailscale
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Built new log parsing system, which extracts analytics data from ~18k clients in real time
• Detected and emailed new users through MailChimp, protoyped network graph of VPN connections
• Used React to build display for a user-facing console
• Wrote clear and concise documentation of code and software architecture

### Research Assistant @ University of Alberta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Edmonton, Canada Area
• Worked as an assistant researcher in a soil sciences lab as part of the WISEST Summer Research Program
• Carried out rigorous, precise experimentation to determine chemical composition of various soil samples
• Formulated an individual research hypothesis; processed data to create a published research poster and present at a symposium


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Software Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23