My name is Zhao Lü. Zhao is pronounced as ‘ciao’ with a ‘j’ and it means to encourage oneself in Chinese. I was born in Beijing, China. I have lived in USA, UK, Brazil, Switzerland, France, and Germany. I travel quite a bit, 45 countries and counting.
I’m a programmer who enjoys practicing yoga.
I’ve worked in technology for a while and have dipped my foot in storage, insurance, telecommunication, and social media marketing industries. As a developer, I am interested in different programming languages (Python, Ruby, Java, Erlang, C) and paradigms. In the recently years I’ve started paying more attention to machine learning and algorithms. I like to tinker with hardware such as Arduino and Beagleboard as well. In 2012, I attended Deborah Burkman’s yoga retreat in Koh Samui, Thailand. I had already quit my job prior to that as I’d like to start something of my own. It took me 4 months after the yoga retreat to figure out what I wanted to do. In December of 2012, I started ForYogi, a market place for yogis. It’s a perfect blend of my two passions, writing code for yoga.
In my spare time, I like to read, take photos with my rangefinder camera, biking and hiking. I used to spend a lot of time running (road and trail) until knee injuries stopped me. I spent a good amount of time playing indoor and sand volleyball as well as basketball. I used to surf in Santa Cruz and Hawaii.
On The Web
In general, I use zlu as my user name on networks and social channels when available.
- Github - The open source portion of my work. Some old work done for OpenVoice, a ruby DSL for telephony.
- LinkedIn - My business profile.
- Twitter - I tweet under @zlu and @foryogi
- SpeakerDeck - Some of the presentations I gave.
- Good Reads - Books I read.
Teaching, Talks and Presentations
- Jun 2018, Bucharest, Romania - Operating and Optimizing Autonomous Vehicle Fleets A talk given at DevTalks.ro.
- Jun 2018, Stuttgart, Germany - Operating and optimising autonomous vehicle fleets – distributed cloud platform A talk given at Autonomous Vehicle Symposium.
- May 2018, Cluj, Romania - Operating and Optimizing Autonomous Vehicle Fleets A talk given at DevTalks.ro.
- Jun 2016, Bogota, CO/Sao Paulo, BR - From Good to Great A talk given to IT of Tappsi and EasyTaxi on career development.
- Sep 2014, San Francisco, CA - Postgres, Heroku Edition A talk given at SocialChorus on Postgres optimization for Heroku.
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Oct 2013, Beijing, China - YogiOnRails, a talk about ForYogi given to Beijing Rubyist.
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May 2013, New York, NY - Web Development Immersive
Taught web programming (frontend and backend) in Ruby-on-Rails at General Assembly. -
May 2013, San Francisco, CA - Marketing for Yogi(ni)s
A talk given to Yoga Garden Teacher Training Program as part of social media marketing program. -
May 2011, San Francisco, CA - Agile Development At Orange Labs
A talk on agile development at Orange Labs with Abhi Hiremaglur. -
August 2010, Austin, Texas - Telephony With Rails
A talk on open-source telephony in Ruby and Rails to Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010. -
July 2010, San Jose, CA - OpenVoice
A talk on Rail’s telephony development to Silicon Valley Rails Meetup group. -
June 2010, Rostock, Germany - OpenVoice
A GoogleVoice clone for the OpenSource to Amoocon 2010. -
May 2010, Amsterdam, Germany - Telephony-aided Self Expression
A presentation given at Orange Research Salon - May 2010, San Francisco, California - Status
A telephony-aided self-expression. A presentation to EComm 2010.