Allen Lu

Allen Lu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber, with extensive experience in network infrastructure and a focus on network resilience during cloud migration. As the tech lead for a team of over 10 engineers, Allen has successfully managed the migration of Uber RPC and gRPC. Additional responsibilities include contributions to service mesh, performance calibration, and participation in the organizational promotion committee. Allen is a certified Bar Raiser, a distinction held by less than 2% of Uber Engineers. Previous roles include Software Engineer positions at Groupon, where expertise in Spark, Scala, Kafka, and Cassandra was developed, as well as experience in payments systems using Ruby on Rails and Agile methodologies. Earlier career experience includes infrastructure software engineering at Visa utilizing core Java and associated frameworks. Allen holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Finance from Northeastern University.