Michael Fu

VP, Head of Engineering

Quora

Mar 2018 - Current (8 years 7 months)

Leading all Engineering functions at Quora, including Infrastructure, Machine Learning, Platform, and Product organizations, where our team is dedicated to developing the largest online Q&A platform, serving over 400 million monthly visitors. Additionally, we are advancing an AI platform, Poe, which aims to make top-tier LLM/GenAI technologies accessible to everyday users.

Head of Cloud and Developer Services

Jul 2013 - Mar 2018 (4 years 9 months)

Led the Infrastructure Services and Platforms org; Scaled the Infra services to be ahead of Pinterest super-charged growth:

- Cloud Management Platform Team: This team develops a centralized platform for managing all services and instances in the cloud, handling resource management, containerization, and orchestration for microservices.

- Video and Image Platform Team: Responsible for managing the infrastructure for image and video storage and processing. This includes developing technologies and pipelines that enable key product features.

- Core Services Team: Manages the foundational infrastructure services that access Pinterest's critical data and their models, including users, pins, boards, and followers

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix

Jul 2012 - Jul 2013 (1 year 1 month)

As a key member of the Developer Tooling team, contributed to several open-source projects:
1) Simian Army, a suite of tools released by Netflix designed to enhance the resilience and maintainability of cloud-based applications, which includes tools like Chaos Monkey and Janitor Monkey.

2) Edda, an open-source system developed by Netflix for monitoring the current and historical status of cloud resources. You can find more information at: https://github.com/Netflix/edda

Software Development Engineer

Amazoncom

Jan 2009 - Jan 2012 (3 years 1 month)

2010-2012: developed the large-scale software systems for build, deployment, monitoring, and testing across the entire EC2 fleet.

2009-2010: worked on Amazon's pricing engine, which uses machine learning to set competitive prices for millions of items based on various inputs.

Software Design Engineer

Microsoft

Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 (3 years 1 month)

2008-2009 worked on the dynamic features of C# programming language and the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) platform

2006-2008 worked on the C# team for the LINQ to SQL feature and C# programming language model.

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