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 operators

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

vidgrep

A CLI tool that scans video files for text or visual patterns via OCR and template matching, then extracts data around every match. Includes a resumable batch worker and an option to extract clips

Python, FFmpeg, OpenCV, OCR

LocalScribe

A local, GPU-accelerated transcription tool built on WhisperX and pyannote.audio — turns audio and video into timestamped, speaker-diarized transcripts with word-level alignment. Runs as a CLI or as an MCP server that watches a folder and transcribes automatically.

Python, WhisperX, PyTorch, MCP

CandleTunes

Turns stock and crypto price history into a live, multi-track composition — price drives pitch, volume and volatility drive velocity, all synced to on-screen candlestick charts and a playable piano. Supports per-track mixing, multiple scales, and MIDI/audio export.

FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Tone.js

silksongRL

A PPO reinforcement-learning agent that learns to beat a Hollow Knight: Silksong boss from raw pixels, paired with a custom BepInEx mod that streams ground-truth HP and state over UDP for reward shaping — a hybrid vision-based policy with an exact, unfarmable reward signal.

Python, Stable-Baselines3, PyTorch, Gymnasium

CUNY Brooklyn College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

New York, NY · 2011 — 2016