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Will Luo Email & Phone Number
Software Engineering / Problem-Solving
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Applied Invention
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Software Engineering / Problem-Solving
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Will Luo is listed as Software Engineering / Problem-Solving at Applied Invention, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at wluo.org, phone signal with area code 415, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Will Luo.
Will Luo previously worked as Software Engineer at Applied Invention and Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Datastore Infrastructure Team at Udemy. Will Luo holds M.S., Computer Science from Georgia Institute Of Technology.
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Will Luo is a Software Engineering / Problem-Solving at Applied Invention. He possess expertise in python, java, web services, scalability, mysql and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Will is the sort of solid, reliable engineer who continuously turns out great code and the occasional zinger. He's got the background and experience to learn pretty much anything, the be productive on it that afternoon.", "I worked with Will at Gigaom for a while now and can attest to the fact that he is incredibly flexible and proficient at his craft. He's a hard worker and his code is thorough, well documented, and testable - not to mention his adeptness at familiarizing himself with new technology/techniques is a blessing in this industry. To top it off, Will is approachable and dependable. I'd work with Will again in a heartbeat!", and "I worked with Will on a daily basis as TuneUp's Support Manager. When users' support tickets fell outside Tier 1 and 2's capabilities, I often consulted with Will. He helped analyze user logs on top of his regular job duties, and I always knew I could count on him to deliver a clear and concise explanation of the user's underlying issues. Will is an incredibly hard worker and I would absolutely welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future."
Listed skills include Python, Java, Web Services, Scalability, and 18 others.
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15 roles · 30 years
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Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Datastore Infrastructure Team
Continued to scale our datastore infrastructure as our user base and traffic grew substantially in 2020; focused more effort to improve security of our data and support our nascent services platform:- Implemented oss Redis clusters for new services in all environments- Implemented Hashicorp Vault clusters in all environments- Revamped MySQL slow query.
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Senior Staff Engineer, Infrastructure Systems Team
Manage and expand our datastore infrastructure; work closely with our SRE team to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our site.- Managed production MySQL clusters and an enterprise Redis clusters in three data centers, using terraform, ansible, and custom automation in bash and python- Implemented and deployed ProxySQL clusters to.
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Sr. Platform Engineer, Systems Team
I ended up working more on production site-related projects, mainly centered around Udemy's databases and message queues.- Provisioned and configured production MySQL instances- Automated MySQL replication repair- "Ansibilized" a number of production clusters, including rabbitmq, backup, log aggregator, kafka/zookeeper- Tuned and tested production MySQL.
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Senior Server Engineer
- Implemented public API endpoints to allow 3PL partners to query customer orders and automated the fulfillment process- Implemented features in batch workers that synchronize and process customer data from a number of partners: Shopify, eBay, Amazon, Squareup, etc.- Updated legacy codebase to migration our system to a new sharded database (Vitess).
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Senior Software Engineer
* Updated our analysts booking/subscription system to minimize manual steps from our sales team* Implemented an indexed taxonomy/facet search using Sphinx to reduce load from MySQL* Maintained and implemented 3rd-party integrations with Gigaom: Recurly, MailChimp, Marketo, etc.* Open-source contributions (in Github) include: GigaOM/go-sphinx.
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
Principal Server Lead
Invitor
* Designed and built the server infrastructure and API endpoints for an Android app (Phonegap/Cordova)* This was an on-going side-project with another collaborator who worked on the Android client* Python; Pyramid; Alchemy (ORM); MySQL
Dec 2012 - Jan 2015
Senior Software Engineer
* Lead development of Windows and cross-platform code base for the flagship desktop app that scanned and corrected customers’ music collection metadata* Implemented usage tracking and analytics in our server application layer* Maintained the e-commerce integration (PayPal and Vindicia)* Managed source repository and application update pipeline, and.
Jan 2008 - Feb 2013
Technical Lead/Consultant
24 Hr Diner, Inc.
* This was a very small collaboration to prototype and build a recommendation engine for web sites based purely on past visits by anonymous users. I was the sole developer initially and built the first prototype.* Python; Recommendation Engine; HMM
Oct 2007 - Jan 2008
Lead Software Engineer
* Metaweb spun off from the work we did for Applied Minds, to productize the idea of a community-supported, heterogeneous data store and taxonomy that can be easily shared and are machine-readable* Implemented first version of a search engine and a clustered large file/object server* Maintained and optimized our data pipeline to import Wikipedia articles.
Aug 2005 - Oct 2007
Senior Software Engineer
* As one of the founding developers in the SF group, prototyped many early stage ideas, from social network for government analysts to a driver for hardware 3D map display* Java; Python; C++/C
Oct 2001 - Aug 2005
Software Engineer
Jumbodyne Corporation
* This was a small start-up with the previous CTO of DoughNET. We were a very small team and worked on a project to record and playback browser requests in order to test and reproduce bugs in web applications.* Implemented an apache plugin to record HTTP requests and their metadata* C; Java; Apache
Aug 2000 - Aug 2001
Senior Java Developer
* Designed and implemented two critical components of the site: an URL-rewriting proxy server and an event-driven email engine* Java; HTTP
Dec 1998 - Jul 2000
Member Of Technical Staff
* Maintained the Motif library for Solaris’ Common Desktop Environment (CDE)* Maintained multi-thread X Windows and Motif tests submitted by the X-Consortium* As a consultant, verified customers’ bug submissions, sometimes onsite to be able to debug against customers’ proprietary libraries linked with libmotif.* C++/C; SunOS; Solaris; Unix
Apr 1996 - Jun 1997
Member Of Technical Staff
Intel Corporation
I was a member of technical staff at the Intel Architecture Lab and worked on few projects related to managing Windows machines remotely.
1996 - 1996
3 education records
Will Luo education
M.S., Computer Science
Georgia Institute Of Technology
B.S., Mathematics-Physics
Brown University
Education record
Stuyvesant High School
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What company does Will Luo work for?
Will Luo works for Applied Invention.
What is Will Luo's role at Applied Invention?
Will Luo is listed as Software Engineering / Problem-Solving at Applied Invention.
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AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @wluo.org for Will Luo at Applied Invention.
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AeroLeads has found 2 phone signal(s) with area code 415 for Will Luo at Applied Invention.
Where is Will Luo based?
Will Luo is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Applied Invention.
What companies has Will Luo worked for?
Will Luo has worked for Applied Invention, Udemy, Stitch Labs, Inc., Gigaom, and Invitor.
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What schools did Will Luo attend?
Will Luo holds M.S., Computer Science from Georgia Institute Of Technology.
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Will Luo is listed with skills including Python, Java, Web Services, Scalability, Mysql, Distributed Systems, Linux, and Software Engineering.
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