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Tyler Lu

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Seattle, Washington, United States

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  • Hivemapper
    Senior Software Engineer
    Hivemapper
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)
    Hivemapper builds the community-owned global map using data from thousands of dashcams. I work across full-stack, backend, and AI/data workflows powering real-time mapping.
    • Architected low-latency telemetry and imagery pipelines ingesting tens of millions of GNSS/IMU/vision events per day, with buffering, retry logic, compression, and schema validation to support globally distributed Open Dashcam devices.
    • Built geospatial + image-processing AI workflows: designed an embedding pipeline for road features and object detection; implemented geometry-splitting, feature clustering, and spatial indexing used for map analytics and route quality scoring.
    • Developed high-performance Next.js/React components with Tailwind and ShadCN
  • toMe
    Software Engineer
    toMe
    Apr 2023 - May 2024 (1 year 2 months)
    • Built end-to-end product features across React/Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL, improving presentation creation and editing flows used by thousands of creators.
    • Integrated OpenAI LLM workflows (content generation, slide editing via natural-language commands, summarization), designing API contracts and UI flows to make AI interactions seamless.
    • Built internal Engagement Analytics dashboards driving enterprise product decisions and contributing directly to closing Tome's first enterprise contract.
    • Strengthened engineering fundamentals: schema migrations, caching strategies, strict typing, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Interviewed candidates, mentored juniors, and collaborated tightly with design
  • Airtable
    Software Engineer
    Airtable
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 9 months)
    • Built and operated data-sync integrations (Google Drive, Adobe Experience Manager, enterprise systems) with Node.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and REST APIs.
    • Modernized import flows to support live, incremental sync, reducing onboarding friction for enterprise customers.
    • Implemented schema migrations, reliability improvements, and backend optimizations used across Airtable's core workflows.
    • Partnered directly with enterprise users and designers to gather requirements and shape product level decisions.
  • Fieldwire
    Software Engineer, Full Stack
    Fieldwire
    Sep 2018 - May 2021 (2 years 9 months)
    • Shipped major web features across a high-traffic AngularJS/TypeScript app and Ruby on Rails backend used by construction teams worldwide.
    • Built a widely used Custom Task Statuses feature (500,000+ monthly uses) and a 3D measurement tool for the BIM viewer (50,000+ monthly uses).
    • Led UI/UX modernization efforts that improved user-workflow efficiency by 20%+.
    • Strengthened reliability with extensive unit/integration testing across frontend and backend.
  • DoneGood
    Software Engineer Intern
    DoneGood
    May 2016 - Aug 2016 (4 months)
    • Implemented product display UI and enhanced product search features for the DoneGood website using JavaScript, HTML, Handlebars, Sass, and Bootstrap, improving usability and performance.
    • Migrated the backend from Parse to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, developing Node.js + MongoDB APIs to serve both the web and iOS clients.
    • Improved backend scalability through optimized queries and applied RESTful API design principles to support a growing catalog of ethical products.
  • P
    Software Engineer Intern
    Premeer
    Jan 2016 - Jul 2016 (7 months)
    • Developed key iOS app features using Cocoa Touch, MapKit, AWS SDK, and Uber SDK.
    • Collaborated closely with PM and QA to ship polished mobile experiences quickly.
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  • U
    B.S. - Computer Engineering
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years 1 month)