Yifan Wu

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I am expert at designing developer friendly abstractions for manipulating data. I am experienced in designing complex applications (e.g., SQL transpiler, Python program slicer, TypeScript+React data exploration tools). I am skilled at explaining novel concepts through many years as a teacher and idea-marketer. I work well with ambiguity and am experienced in translating ideas to roadmaps. I have participated in over two hundred hours of coaching and meditation practice to work towards conscious leadership. I value a team that is invested in quality and efficiency, compassionately candid, and committed to inclusion and having a positive impact. KEY PROJECTS Scalable interactive visualization: DIEL developed two ideas: (1) declarative hybrid execution between client DB (sql.js) and server DB 📄 Transparent Scaling for Interactive Visualization, (2) reactive programming using SQL queries while resolving asynchrony through DB transactions.📄 Interactive Visualization Beyond the Here and Now (more on the consistency piece: 📄 A DeVIL-ish Approach to Inconsistency in Interactive Visualizations). 🤝 Work done with Remco Chang, Joe Hellerstein, Arvind Satyanarayan, and Eugene Wu. ⭐ OSS code. A

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