Cheng-wei Hu
Co-Founder & CEO at Wondering (YC S26)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng-wei Hu is a software engineer in San Francisco with eight years of experience building full-stack systems and conversational interfaces, currently working at Google. He has a strong XR and cloud background from Cornell Tech research and internships at Amazon and Grindr, and has practical DevOps and API automation experience from his work at CHOCOLABS where he dramatically improved API performance and built an internal API docs system. Cheng-wei contributes to open-source bot framework examples (Yoctol/bottender), adding integrations for Dialogflow, Rasa, LUIS, LINE rich menus, and serverless deployment examples for AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions. He writes the Weekly I/O newsletter and maintains personal projects at wondering.app and chengweihu.com, blending technical depth with clear communication. Educated in both business and information sciences across NTU, Technion, and Cornell, he combines product-minded engineering with research-driven curiosity. Notably, his background spans developer tooling, cloud deploy patterns, and human-facing conversational UX—making him equally comfortable with backend performance tuning and end-user interaction design.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Finance (Minor: Computer Science), Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Finance (Minor: Computer Science) at National Taiwan UniversityDual Master of Science Degrees Connective Media, Dual Master of Science Degrees Connective Media at Cornell TechThe Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University (HSNU)
Github Skills (14)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
bots10
javascript10
chatbot10
googlebot10
messenger9
api8
apim8
api-design8
aws6
gcp6
expressjs5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Yoctol/bottender
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
⚡️ A framework for building conversational user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cheng-wei primarily focused on expanding the examples section of the repository. They implemented examples for various conversational bot platforms and services, including Dialogflow, Rasa NLU, and LUIS.ai, showcasing integrations with these services. The user also added examples demonstrating rich menu functionality for the LINE platform, contributing to the bot's interaction capabilities. Additionally, the user added AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Function examples, demonstrating knowledge of deployment and integration of the framework.
conversationalbotchatframeworkuser-interfaces
HcwXd/HTML-CSS-practice
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:84 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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