David Wu

Senior Software Developer

Taboola · New York, NY

Feb 2023 — Apr 2026

• Led applied-AI work for account review, shipping a categorization system that reduced manual review volume by 40% with human-in-the-loop validation
• Designed and piloted an MCP-based LLM assistant for ~20 internal users, unifying content generation and real-time analytics workflows
• Helped move legacy monoliths into Kubernetes microservices while owning 5+ content-review applications used daily by ~100 reviewers

Internal Applications Technical Lead

Taboola · New York, NY

Feb 2020 — Jan 2023

• Re-architected the core internal platform from a single server into a horizontally scalable distributed system, raising uptime from 98% to 99.8%
• Led a Grails 2 to 3 migration while increasing automated test coverage from ~20% to ~80%, improving release confidence
• Managed and mentored two engineers while introducing sprint planning, standups, and structured code review

Internal Applications Developer

Taboola · New York, NY

Apr 2017 — Feb 2020

• Built self-service tooling for account management and support teams, reducing technical-support escalations by ~70%
• Integrated Salesforce and JIRA APIs into campaign workflows, reducing approval timelines from ~2 days to same-day turnaround
• Created Chrome extensions for in-browser ad placement editing, removing manual design handoffs from routine operations

telemouse

Record raw mouse input during play, replay the session, and inspect movement and aim metrics in a browser.

Built the Rust capture agent, browser visualization, session recording, and offline analysis tools.

Batch input reads to reduce CPU work, with an exact-timestamp mode when timing precision matters more.

Capture-thread CPU fell from 2.8% to 0.22% of one core at 1 kHz on a Ryzen 5950X with an 8 ms coalescing window.

Rust, Windows Raw Input, UDP, WebSocket, Kafka

vidgrep

Find text or visual patterns in recorded video, then export matching timestamps or clips. A resumable worker handles larger libraries.

Built the scan and clip pipeline, resumable batch worker, and tools for inspecting OCR results.

Profile decode and OCR separately; use hardware decoding when supported and fall back to software on other machines.

A published RTX 5090 benchmark reduced a 26.7-second AV1 video scan from 29.6 s to 5.1 s, preserving all eight search matches. Results depend on codec and hardware.

Python, FFmpeg, OpenCV, OCR

LocalScribe

Transcribe audio and video locally on a GPU, with word-level timestamps and optional two-speaker labels. Runs as a CLI or as an MCP server that watches a folder.

Python, WhisperX, PyTorch, MCP

CandleTunes

Turn stock and crypto price history into multi-track music, synced to candlestick charts and an on-screen piano. Mix tracks, pick a scale, and export MIDI or audio.

FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Tone.js

silksongRL

Train a PPO agent to beat a Hollow Knight: Silksong boss from raw pixels. A BepInEx mod streams exact HP over UDP, so the reward is precise and unfarmable.

Python, Stable-Baselines3, PyTorch, Gymnasium

CUNY Brooklyn College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

New York, NY · 2011 — 2016