# You Wu

> Software Engineer @ Persona | MS @ Columbia | BS @ Duke

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Persona
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer Resident @ Persona
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Firework
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Mateo, California, United States
•	Created an AI-powered ETL query expansion framework with Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate SQL query parsing, metadata extraction, and transformation optimization. Optimized ETL workflows by restructuring event data
•	Designed and deployed Airflow DAGs to orchestrate data ingestion and transformation, streamlining data movement across Snowflake, AWS S3, and relational databases for scalability and fault tolerance
•	Executed data quality checks in Data Build Tool (DBT), integrating custom tests, freshness monitoring, and CI/CD workflows
•	Developed real-time monitoring dashboards in Snowflake and Sigma to monitor customer events for customer tracking events, enabling data-driven insights, operational monitoring and error tracking

### Software Engineer @ Firework
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States
•	Developed expertise in fine-tuning and optimizing AI prompts, enhancing virtual assistant performance by improving language consistency, reducing inference latency, and minimizing hallucinations across diverse use cases.
•	Designed and implemented the "MLLM as a Judge" evaluation framework, leveraging the Greedy Triplet Ranking (GTR) algorithm to automate the unbiased evaluation and ranking of large language models (LLMs) based on their performance.
•	Spearheaded the transformation of an AI assistant from a single-product to a multi-product sales powerhouse by enhancing its performance through proactive customer needs analysis, a refined feature catalog, and tailored product recommendations. 
•	Automated end-to-end data pipelines for multi-product recommendation systems, including data generation, ingestion, and storage, significantly expanding the assistant's capabilities to recommend and switch between different product categories.
•	Conducted in-depth comparative analyses of market-leading LLM products, translating findings into actionable insights and strategic recommendations that enhanced the virtual assistant’s conversational quality and user experience.

### Data Scientist @ China Business Network (CBN)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Shanghai, China
•	Mastered Alibaba-powered data tools such as Brand Data Bank, Business Reference, effectively distilling valuable insights 
•	Applied deep analysis on consumer flows, employed sorting and filtering methods to customize and profile the crowd, fostering nuanced understanding of market dynamics and consumer behavior patterns
•	Generated daily reports to trace the effect of brand crowd placement and extracted product features based on customer reviews
•	Performed in-depth case studies on loyalty initiatives in Taobao's competitive marketplace, providing strategic advice to refine client brands' positioning and drive long-term growth

### R&D Data Analyst @ Accenture
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Shanghai, China
•	Investigated R&D financial management in leading tech companies, focusing on their R&D process, annual R&D investments
•	Benchmarked industry best practices and conducted desk research, including Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Dell, etc 
•	Facilitated expert interviews, crafted expert interview outlines, organized meeting minutes, extracted key information, and conducted in-depth benchmarking analysis of best practices
•	Analyzed R&D financial control mechanisms at Huawei and Samsung through expert insights and desk research, culminating in informative PowerPoint presentations

### Assistant Software Engineer @ HopeRun Technology Corporation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
•	Observed the Json format of the platform and used the Python crawler to collect components information, including Kafka, Yarn, as well as Zookeeper, and sorted out and collated complex APIs
•	Collaborated with colleagues to carry out the Chinese-English bilingual translation of over 1000 indicators and configuration item


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Environmental Health Data Science
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Data Science
Duke University

### High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/you-aria-wu

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Last updated: 2026-04-11