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Jerry Wu

@jerrywu

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I build enterprise AI platforms and distributed systems that make complex workflows reliable and scalable.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build reliable AI platforms, distributed backend systems, and end-to-end products where I can partner across product, ML, security, and infrastructure teams.

At Vectara, I build an enterprise AI platform that turns private business data into grounded, source-cited answers through semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows.

I develop Python services for ingestion, retrieval, reranking, generation, and secure MCP tool integrations, alongside React and TypeScript interfaces for managing corpora, agents, tools, and evaluations.

Previously at DoorDash, I built Kotlin and Java logistics services supporting the full delivery lifecycle. I designed Kafka-based event processing, gRPC APIs, operational dashboards, and recovery workflows for customer-impacting delivery operations.

At Blizzard Entertainment, I built backend services for Battle.net account, commerce, and digital-entitlement workflows. Across these systems, I focus on reliable APIs, event-driven architecture, observability, cloud infrastructure, and end-to-end delivery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Vectara

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Built an enterprise AI platform that ingests private business data and delivers grounded, source-cited answers through semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows. Led development of Python services for document ingestion, retrieval, reranking, and tool-enabled agent workflows.

Python Java Django fastAPI gRPC REST Model Context Protocol PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers Kafka PostgreSQL Redis Terraform Helm Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure React TypeScript

Software Engineer II

DoorDash

Apr 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Built distributed logistics services that managed the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, including order confirmation, Dasher assignment, pickup, drop-off, cancellation, and reassignment. Designed Kafka-based event processing and gRPC APIs for delivery-state changes.

Java Kotlin Python Kafka gRPC REST React TypeScript Cassandra PostgreSQL Cadence Docker Kubernetes

Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Blizzard Entertainment

Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Built backend services for Battle.net account, commerce, and digital-entitlement workflows, helping manage purchases, refunds, subscriptions, and player access to games and digital content. Designed Kafka-based event consumers and versioned REST and gRPC APIs.

Java Python Kafka REST gRPC SQL Redis Docker Kubernetes

Software Engineer Intern

Blizzard Entertainment

Oct 2018 - Dec 2018 (2 months)

Developed a Python-based testing utility that replayed account and entitlement events in staging, allowing engineers to validate new service behavior before deployment. Expanded unit and integration test coverage for Java services and documented deployment and troubleshooting procedures.

Python Java Testing Documentation