Jerry Luk

Current

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Past

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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Connections

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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 am currently on deferral for my PhD. program from Cornell and working at LinkedIn. LinkedIn provides me opportunities to create exciting products using web 2.0 technology such as Ruby on Rails and AJAX. Currently I am leading the Mobile project including the mobile web application and iPhone native application.

I love learning new technology. I like customer-driven development. I enjoy designing products which are powerful, easy to use, and fun.

Jerry Luk’s Specialties:

Consumer Internet, Mobile technology, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, REST, iPhone applications, Computer graphics, A.I. system.

Jerry Luk’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn

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

June 2008 — Present (5 months)

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: Coming soon!

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

The "unofficial" photographer
- Took most of the pictures for LinkedIn blogs.
- See pictures at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=49991366%40N00&q=linkedin&m=tags
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