# Winters K Lu > Data/ML Engineering Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/winters "Stay hungry, stay foolish."​ Winters is currently Staff Software Engineer at Twilio. He was previously employed at Salesforce, Kidaptive and PaySimple as software engineer. Before he moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay Area, Winters finished his Master’s degree in computer science with the specialization in Multimedia and Creative Technologies at USC. He was a co-founder for a stealth startup, research assistant for USC School of Architecture and an intern for Microsoft (Shanghai) during academia. His current expertise is in ML infra, big data infra (storage, compute, pipeline), high performance web app and webservice, authentication system/framework, he has prior career/academic experience in computer graphic and model reconstruction, simulation and animation, geographic DB, genetic algorithm. "He is an UNICORN!"​ Winters is interested in all awesome and creative things including software/platform architecture, design and development in distributed/scalable web service, data processing, data pipeline and storage, advanced visualization and graphics, personal interests in game and mobile (catching up new technologies, dev pattern and methodologies). He graduated in May of 2013 and is currently employed by Salesforce, not refused to super great opportunity to showcase skills and innate passion (even its an startup idea from scratch). "Wish the Force be with us."​ "Share me the force of opportunity you can, say no I may. Too much dark force there are, but no fear I must be. Do or do not, there is no try." ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff - Einstein Platform @ Salesforce Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Machine learning platform, Open Source AutoML lib (TransmogrifAI), Modeling service ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff - Monitoring Cloud @ Salesforce Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Data pipeline, Lossless pipeline monitoring and tracing, Open Source data tracing framework (Hedwig), Distributed tracing framework (Zipkin) Patent: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOG FILE RANKING AND REPLAY. Appl. No.:15/973920 ### Member Of Technical Staff - Industries @ Salesforce Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Leading team in designing and building web application for HealthCare industrial vertical, developing and through all phases of the front-end to the back-end development lifecycle. - Interact with other team members including designer and product manager to deliver robust and reliable code, contribute ideas and provide feedback on many projects within the team’s portfolio. - Create high performance, metadata-driven Salesforce Lightning component for data visualization, inherit and enhance multiple internal Lightning components as generic components leveraged across verticals in Salesforce Industries team. - Introduce best practice of version control in Git and code review on github into team, hook up git repository with Jenkins automation machine. - Work closely with LMTS to build first version of Query Builder and data persistent layer in backend infrastructure. - Design and implement mocking framework for Apex backend code, helping developers in writing unit test and fulfilling objective of testing code coverage. - Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced team. ### Full-Stack Engineer @ Kidaptive, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 - Team from PaySimple was acquired by Kidaptive, in charge of building big data infrastructure and service platform. - Through participation in all phases of the development of the Kidaptive client application and web service. - Migrate and implement RESTful webservice backed up by Apache CXF and Hibernate. - Create token based authentication system used by webservice supporting across many app client apps. - Research and develop new practices, tools, and technologies for internal usage, time-saving for learning scientists accessing and testing data models. - Working directly with product manager and learning scientist to implement and deliver milestone product of “Kidaptive Parent’s Pad” Litetouch version for customers. - Design and develop the architecture of Adaptive Learning Platform portal for partner developers, leveraging AngularJS, D3 and Crossfilter libraries, providing functions including model manipulating, real-time data monitoring, apps control panel. ### Software Engineer @ PaySimple Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - In charge of full stack of development technics. From front-end GWT, javascript to core back-end implementation including system deployment. - Coordinating Java team in San Mateo branch with .NET team in HQ Denver. - Improving current authentication module to CAS centralized authentication system. - Building and improving native JS data visualization application with d3.js and crossfilter. ### Part-time Front-End Engineer @ Spark Application LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - Developing innovative News Aggregator on iOS platform. Implementing all front-end multimedia content display and network communication between mobile device and server side. - Building creative user interaction in native iOS application. ### Research Assistant @ University of Southern California School of Architecture Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles - Voluntary working for Dr. David Gerber as part of ongoing research: Design Optioneering a Multidisciplinary Desgin Optimization Methodology and Technology. - Focus on software UI design in C#, data analysis with visualization and representation under matlab, also made improvement on software structure to fit in latest application platform. - Ability to self-learning and problem solving to fulfill project needs in various objectives. ### Intern Development Testing Engineer @ Microsoft Shanghai Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Shanghai - Sent by Wicresoft Company as intern to Microsoft Shanghai Technology Park, in charge of development testing in Home and Small Business Server Project. - All testing results had to report to project manager directly. - Achievements contain establishing new testing platform and better understand Microsoft testing mechanism and framework. - Relevant tasks improve my adaptability in unfamiliar surroundings and among new colleagues. ### Intern Front-end Programmer, Database Administrator @ Blue Star Information Technology Inc Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Wuhan - Received job offer as promotion after two months internship, but decided to return school. - Internship involved Oracle Database and governmental entity website data collecting and disposing. - The position demanded skilled developer in regular group with teamwork spirit. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computers Science in Multimedia and Creative Technologies University of Southern California ### University of California, Berkeley ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/winterslu - Portfolio: http://winterslu.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/winters JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/winters/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12