For a decade, since YC W13, I've been building startups making something from nothing.
For the next 4-5 years I am looking to contribute to taking something working and make it lasting.
The companies I am considering exhibit the following behaviors:
- seek understanding
- make your content clear
- make your delivery memorable
These behaviors can manifest as existing product market fit, clear and concise external and internal communication, and user interfaces with craftsman-like quality.
From a personal growth standpoint, I have this intrinsic desire to be a dramatically better programmer. Landing somewhere with a lot of talented and kind programmers is important to me.
I would like to start in the organization as an IC software engineer. After the first year I am open to engineering management, product, and any roles that are of use to the company's purpose.
I have an affinity towards building tooling that enables amateurs to surpass in ability and production quality of professionals.
Not interested in AI, unless witchy. Not interested in web3, unless it involves decentralized file storage or governance for IRL assets. Not interested in science tech or tools for thought; I need a break.
Open to relocation for the right opportunity.
ciindy.wu at gmail dot com
Work Experience
persuading computers
local-first multiplayer reference manager as foundation for decentralized social network for science
crowdfunding for science
- program dendritic cells for immunotherapy at bryerslab.org
- design anthrax therapeutic for the u.s. army at bakerlab.org
- build DNA logic gates for silencing genes at seeliglab.org
- insect gall diversity in eastern washington sagebrush steppe
- feed and raise zebrafish for tuberculosis research
Projects
process podcast for robots
local-first instant-ui multiplayer reference manager
Next.js, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Replicache, Typescript, Tauri, Rust, TailwindCSS, ProseMirror, Vercel, Postgres, IndexedDB
summarize science abstracts for second graders using GPT-3
Flask, Python, GPT-3, Vercel
PDF reader of our dreams
Clojure, Electron
parse PDFs into editable posts
Rails, Ruby, React, Typescript, SCSS, Google Cloud, GROBID, Prosemirror
science for everyone
Rails, Ruby, React, AWS, SCSS, Postgres, Heroku
Writing
J Park, CT Wu, JD Bryers. Immunology 139 (1), 72-87
SJ Wu, CB Eiben, JH Carra, I Huang, D Zong, P Liu, CT Wu, J Nivala... Journal of Biological Chemistry 286 (37), 32586-32592
Awards
Volunteering
exploring the origins of life through cave bacteria
served as an elected director for membership organization of 250+ chapters and 10,000 cavers
grassroots organizing app that meets voters where they are
full–tuition scholarship for a woman in science, technology, engineering, or math
play flute and violin duets for hospital patients
Side Projects
irl founder interview series
coffee shop open whenever we feel like it
Speaking
Features
"We find holes in the ground and then we...explore them. And it kind of feels like maybe what Neil Armstrong felt like when he first stepped foot on the moon."
Meet Cindy Wu, a dinosaur-loving, bug enthusiast, who prefers animals to people.
"This solution helps close the gap for potentially-promising but unfunded projects." -- Bill Gates