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Hi! My name is

Andrew Lu,
and I love hardware!

Computer Science student passionate about turning ideas into elegant, impactful software.

See what I've built!
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About Me

Curious by nature,
driven by craft.

Hi! I'm Andrew, a Computer Science student at [Your University], with a love for building things that live at the intersection of technology and people.

I've spent the last few years exploring software engineering, machine learning, and product design — always with an eye toward why a thing matters, not just how it works.

Outside the screen I enjoy hiking, photography, and a surprisingly competitive game of chess.

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Experience

Where I've worked.

Amazon
Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
  • Built a real-time data pipeline processing 50K events/sec using Kinesis and Lambda, reducing ingestion latency by 40%.
  • Owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing feature for the recommendations service, collaborating with PM and design.
  • Wrote unit + integration tests achieving 95% coverage on new modules; zero P1 bugs post-launch.
Skills Developed AWS Python Kinesis System Design Agile
Google
STEP Intern
May 2023 – Aug 2023
  • Developed new UI components for Google Maps used by 3M+ daily active users.
  • Reduced page load time by 18% through lazy-loading and asset optimization.
  • Presented project findings to a team of 20 engineers at an end-of-summer showcase.
Skills Developed TypeScript Angular Performance Code Review
[Your University]
Research Assistant — NLP Lab
Sep 2022 – May 2023
  • Co-authored a paper on sentiment analysis in low-resource languages, submitted to ACL 2023.
  • Fine-tuned multilingual BERT models, achieving 87% accuracy on a novel benchmark dataset.
Skills Developed PyTorch Transformers Research Writing HuggingFace
Projects

Things I've built.

Project 1 screenshot
Atlas AI View ↗

A retrieval-augmented chatbot that answers questions over custom PDF corpora. Built with LangChain, Pinecone vector DB, and a Next.js frontend. Handles 10K+ documents with sub-second latency.

Python LangChain Pinecone Next.js
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MarketPulse View ↗

Real-time stock sentiment dashboard aggregating Reddit, Twitter, and news headlines using an ensemble NLP classifier. Achieved 79% directional accuracy in 30-day back-tests.

React FastAPI PostgreSQL Scikit-learn
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TrailSync View ↗

Mobile-first hiking companion app with offline GPX map rendering and social trip logging. 1 200+ downloads on the App Store. Built cross-platform with Flutter.

Flutter Dart Firebase Maps SDK
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NoteWeave View ↗

Browser extension that transforms any webpage into structured, bidirectionally-linked notes synced to Notion. 300+ active users in the Chrome Web Store.

TypeScript Chrome Extension Notion API
Skills

My toolkit.

Python TypeScript Java C++ SQL Dart AWS Docker Kubernetes Git PostgreSQL Firebase Linux React Next.js Flutter Figma Tailwind CSS Technical Writing Public Speaking Team Leadership

Feel free to reach out below!

I'm always open to new opportunities, collaborations, or just a good conversation.

© 2025 Andrew Lu — Built with care & curiosity.