Lara Lu
Member Of Technical Staff at Hark
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLara Lu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building Android apps, backend infrastructure, and data/ML platforms across companies from Meta and Amazon to Patreon, xAI and her current role at Hark. She has shipped end-to-end mobile features—most recently building Imagine on the Grok Android app and contributing UX-focused enhancements to Facebook’s popular Litho UI framework—while also working on measurement and backend systems. Comfortable spanning client and server concerns, she combines a CS and business background from Emory with a creative sensibility informed by interests in art, music and philosophy. Colleagues rely on her to translate product vision into polished, usable mobile experiences and to tackle thorny infra problems with practical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Administration at Emory University
English, Chinese, German, French
Github Skills (6)
litho10
javas10
material-design10
android10
java10
ui-components10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/litho
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
A declarative framework for building efficient UIs on Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Lara primarily contributed to the `facebook/litho` repository, focusing on the Android UI framework, Litho. Their work involved implementing new features for the `TextInput` and `MaterialTextInput` components, including adding focus change events, fixing hint color issues, and addressing vertical centering problems. They also added a `clickable` property to the `TextInput` component and resolved a sizing bug, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the usability and functionality of text input elements within the Litho framework.
android
larabear/udacity-projects
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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