Yuxin Wu
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuxin Wu is a software engineer with 14 years of experience blending research-grade machine learning work and production systems engineering, currently based in Sunnyvale and working at Google. He has a strong open-source footprint across flagship projects like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Detectron2 and Facebook Research repositories, contributing low-level shape inference, training stability fixes, and performance-focused CUDA/kernel improvements. Comfortable across back-end infrastructure, ML model internals, and selective front-end UX tweaks, he has modernized build systems, tightened tests, and improved memory and key input handling in diverse codebases. His background spans research labs to product teams—stints at Facebook Research and MoonshotAI before Google—and he holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and a BS in Information Security from Shanghai Jiao Tong. Notably, he has experience replacing communication layers (ZMQ to raw websocket) and cracking complex data formats, showing both systems intuition and practical reverse-engineering skills.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS Information Security, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Security at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (62)
pytorch10
javascript10
c-language10
distributed-training10
sqlite10
batch-normalization10
python10
evaluation10
testing10
machine-learning10
wechat10
terminal-emulator10
websocket10
c1110
terminal-application10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
ppwwyyxx/wechat-dump
Nov 2014 - Dec 2021
Analyzing your wechat message history from android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 201 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yuxin implemented core features for cracking encrypted WeChat message history from Android devices. They developed a Python script, `dump.py`, and a supporting library to parse and extract data from the WeChat database, incorporating functionality to parse contacts and messages. They also created and refactored other supporting modules for handling data such as message parsing, audio parsing, and building the HTML.
androidwechat
facebookresearch/fvcore
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Collection of common code that's shared among different research projects in FAIR computer vision team.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 116 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yuxin contributed to the fvcore repository by fixing documentation formatting issues, updating installation instructions, and correcting array data types within the LVIS evaluation. They also addressed build issues and added support for the `VFlipTransform`. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested improvements to batch normalization, addressing a reported bug. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the code and its documentation and supporting tools within a computer vision research framework.
computer-vision
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