Simon Wu

Now

• Working on distributed systems with the Live Orders team at Atoms in Seattle.
• Still a student at the University of Waterloo, majoring in Computer Science as well as Combinatorics and Optimization.
• Trying to be healthier (sleep better, lose weight, etc). Things are only going OK - moving here from Ontario was very disruptive, and there's always so much to see and do in the Bay Area, so I find it hard to stay locked in.
• Recently got into Dead by Daylight. Much like Overwatch, it's existed for much longer than it should have by not shooting itself in the foot as hard as its competitors (1, 2, 3, 4, many more examples).

Soon

• Graduating from Waterloo, hopefully next May. If you're interested in hiring me check out my resume.

Past

• Co-op has brought me to many places, such as:
  • Snowflake (Redwood City) for making queries go faster.
  • Squint (San Francisco) for manufacturing intelligence, industrial AI and tribal knowledge capture.
  • Invision AI (Toronto) for computer vision systems for safety and alerting in transportation and logistics.
  • Huawei Canada R&D (Waterloo, Markham) for distributed database systems and privacy protection.
• Attended a couple of the ratcamps, including SPARC 2022 (Berkeley) and ASPR 2024 (Taoyuan).
• Briefly ran the Effective Altruism Club at UWaterloo, and received an Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) University Organizer Fellowship.
• Competed in the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2021 and 2022.