Jerry Luk

Current

Co-Founder at Presdo

Past

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Student Researcher at Berkeley Computer Animation & Modelling Group

Student Researcher at CITRIS

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Education

University of California, Berkeley

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Industry

Computer Software

Jerry Luk’s Summary

I come from computer science research background. My focus areas at UC Berkeley were Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Sensors Network and Computer Graphics.

I deferred my PhD. program from Cornell and worked at LinkedIn. At LinkedIn, I built the LinkedIn Firefox toolbar; I brought in new technology and built a rapid development team; I led and architect the Mobile platform with applications including the WAP application, iPhone app, IBM Lotus integration, and more.

Now I am at Presdo trying to build a product that is fun, powerful, and easy to use.

I build stuffs, I have a lot of energy, and I am not afraid to start from beginning.

Jerry Luk’s Specialties:

Consumer Internet, Agile development, Mobile technology, Customer-driven development, Web 2.0, Company culture, Ruby on Rails, REST, iPhone app, Java, OAuth, Computer graphics, A.I.

Jerry Luk’s Experience

Co-Founder

Presdo

(Computer Software industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Presdo helps people organizing their time.

With the Presdo event scheduling tool, you can make a time to meet with your friends, co-workers, and customers fast and easy. What will you do for the extra hour that Presdo saves you?
Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2008 — May 2009 (1 year)

My roles at LinkedIn:

Project lead and architect for the mobile platform with 2 products:
1. LinkedIn Mobile web application
- Implemented in Ruby on Rails
- Supports internationalization
- Supports iPhones, Blackberries and other WML-enabled devices
2 LinkedIn iPhone application:
- Lead a small team to develop the LinkedIn iPhone application using iPhone SDK
- Leverages OAuth and Mobile REST APIs
- See http://rurl.org/xxg for more details

Hacker at LED team
- Using RoR, Google Maps APIs and LinkedIn RESTful services to implement NewIn, an application that display newly joined LinkedIn members in real time.
- Prototyped a facebook application to suggest people you may connect

Representative for RESTful service at LinkedIn 2.0 project
- Ensure the next generation architecture supports heterogeneous frameworks and technology
- Provide advices on using RESTful services and memcache
Software Engineer

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

January 2005 — May 2008 (3 years 5 months)

Design and implement applications to promote and integrated with the LinkedIn service including:

LinkedIn Project
- First Ruby on Rails project at LinkedIn
- "Project" enables users to automatically save LinkedIn searches, organize profiles into projects, and add comments or tags to profiles
- Designed the architecture that includes a server component of Ruby on Rails and client component of XUL and Javascript for Firefox and C++ for IE

LinkedIn Companion for Firefox
- Only developer
- Built the prototype and released the first version in 3 months
- Implemented web-mail infobox which allows users to see LinkedIn profiles

Outlook Toolbar
- Designed and implemented algorithm and datastructure for the Dashboard function
- Optimized program performance (improved startup/shutdown time from 90 secs to 5 secs)
Student Researcher

Berkeley Computer Animation & Modelling Group

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2004 — January 2005 (7 months)

- Designed and implemented footskate cleanup for motion synthesis
- Implemented Inverse Kinematics functions
Student Researcher

CITRIS

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 2 months)

- Designed and implemented fall detection and localization using Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wrote accelerometer, light intensity and temperature sensors drivers

Jerry Luk’s Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.S. (High Honors) , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , 2002 — 2004

Projects:
- Computer Graphics - Ray Tracer with 18 features, Interactive Deformation using Modal Analysis
- Human-Computer Interaction - Senior Online Center
- Artificial Intelligence - Hand-written Digits Recognizer using image congealing
- Languages & Compilers - Decaf (Java-like language) Compiler
- Database System - Online Bookstore using PHP, PostgreSQL Buffer Manager
- Machine Structure - Lisp Interpreter, MIPS Hardware Simulator

* see projects at http://jerryluk.spymac.com/berkeley

Activities and Societies:

Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Theta Kappa, Golden Key