Anthony Wu

Anyone can prompt a prototype. I have the engineering judgment to ship it to production and stand behind it.

Founding-stage builder with large-system judgment and hands-on infrastructure depth—across Google, YouTube, LearnSprout, Apple, and Ploy.

Inspect the archive

Anthony Wu’s GitHub contribution graph from July 2025 through June 2026

Open source WORK WHILE ON sabbaticalBuilding Ploy

Systems shipped across two operating modes.

Founding-stage speed. Large-platform judgment.

Apple Education: core provisioning systems behind Apple School Manager, ClassKit, and Schoolwork, serving millions of students.
Google / YouTube: moderation systems supporting billions of views and millions of Trust & Safety review decisions.
Ploy AI: infrastructure serving thousands of domains and companies.

Founding Team

Infrastructure to production to customer delivery.

Building the AI-native web marketing platform. PRs to production, end to end. When GPT and Opus claims the work is done, I have to vouch for it during customer delivery.

Connected BYOIP (ARIN-registered) to Cloudflare for Platforms
Bootstrapped the Google and Cloudflare infra, dev environment, IAM, CI/CD
Primarily responsible for infrastructure/account provisioning, anti-abuse, and enterprise governance (DRI on SOC 2 audits)
Behind the scenes
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Human in the loop on code reviews (but for how much longer?)

References

[1]Y Combinator company profile

Creator of Data Science Jupyter platform - Apple Maps

Turned notebook-based data science into a production platform used across engineering, data, and operations.

Bridged the math-to-operations gap between Jupyter notebooks and production. Created one of the most widely used data notebook services at Apple, helping engineering, data, and operations teams deliver rapid improvements to Maps.

Apple Maps 3D view of San Francisco — helped build this era of Apple Maps

Founding Software Engineer

Built core provisioning infrastructure behind Apple School Manager, ClassKit, and Schoolwork.

Principal Engineer on the account and device provisioning platform powering Apple School Manager, ClassKit Framework, and the Schoolwork iOS app.

This platform originated in my living room in October 2011.

Apple School Manager app and license provisioning

Apple School Manager user and class rosters

media archive / 3 records

Small employment perks

[+]Installed the latest green builds of macOS and iOS from internal CI.
[+]Enjoyed Apple Park's opening era.
[+]Found heaps of old Macintosh, NeXT Cube, and BeOS boxes scattered around various offices.
[+]Attended Apple University internal executive seminars.

References

Co-Founder & CTO

Acquired by Apple

Built the platform from seed through acquisition, then carried the product vision into Apple Education.

Built an edtech platform used by thousands of K-12 schools globally. Full-stack Python and AWS product from seed to acquisition. Backed by Formation8, Samsung Ventures, and ImagineK12.

Small employment perks

[+]As CTO with full sovereignty over the tech stack, adopted HashiCorp Terraform the week it was released, in July 2014.
[+]The "privilege" of fulfilling M&A open source and data compliance review with Morrison & Foerster.

References

Software Engineer Tech Lead

Built moderation systems and reviewer tools at YouTube scale, earning a Google OC Award and a U.S. patent.

Frontend and backend work on YouTube’s content moderation and Terms of Service enforcement systems. Led engineering teams of 3–8 and built tools used by human and machine reviewers at scale.

YouTube interface from January 2009 — YouTube interface, January 2009

Small employment perks

[+]Installed the latest green builds of Android from internal CI.
[+]Installed the first-ever green builds of Google Chrome for macOS.
[+]$1,000 holiday cash bonuses.
[+]Gift phones every holiday—received a T-Mobile G1, Nexus One, Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus.
[+]Popcorn was out for the Google Buzz launch, Meatless Monday debate, and Kennedy redesign discussions.
[+]Worked from the Google San Francisco office for Thursday sushi lunch.
[+]Was there when the YouTube HQ red slide was installed in San Bruno.
[+]Enjoyed the amazing 901 Cherry HQ—with its gym, swimming pool, and outdoor basketball court.

References

Software Engineer, Professional Services

Now called Forward Deployed Engineering

Brought enterprise automation into pharmacy, banking, insurance, and utilities operations.

Solutions Architect and software engineer on enterprise automation platforms. Java, Oracle, and Solaris. Varolii was acquired by Nuance, which was later acquired by Microsoft.

Small employment perks

[+]All-company ski trips to Whistler, BC—perks we don't get at tech companies anymore.
[+]Worked out of a beautiful Art Deco building in downtown Seattle, with views of Puget Sound and Washington State ferries.
[+]Expensed steak dinners with clients.

References

Knowledge, not vibes.

Even in the age of AI: computer engineering training and patented work in large-scale content moderation.

EducationB.S. Computer EngineeringUniversity of Washington / Top-ranked computing program / 2001—2005 PatentSystems and Methods for Screening Potentially Inappropriate ContentUS 9053416 / YouTube moderation systems

When to bring me in.

I’m most useful where a product needs both a builder’s urgency and an operator’s patience.

Action palette Enter

Ambiguous problem → reliable system

Architecture, implementation, production, and support—without losing sight of the people using the system.