Gavin Wu_

GitHub

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I'm from New Zealand, and I study Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown.

I build software, mostly applied ML, quant tools and products people actually use.

Off the keyboard, I'm a performer: Peking Opera, Jinghu (Chinese fiddle), choir and piano.

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VolSurface

A live, fully client-side BTC/ETH options volatility surface

Python · Black-76 · SVI/SSVI

NCEAGrader

AI grading for New Zealand schools: 22 → 1,435+ users across 10+ schools

Next.js · Python · MongoDB · AWS

Enspire

AI book summaries with 10,000+ monthly active users in 8 countries

Next.js · TypeScript · MongoDB

Crucible @ Frontier Space Lab

A 25K-line AI-native simulation IDE unifying 11 physics solvers

Python · TypeScript · simulation

GovSim

Policy-impact simulator. 1st internationally + MVP, Google DevSprint '26

scikit-learn · Hugging Face · Jupyter

JudgeGuard

Unit tests, regression tests and CI gates for LLM-as-a-judge evaluators

LLM evaluation · CI

Frontier OpenSearch

A Firefox fork rebuilt without tabs

browser · Firefox fork

Blue Ocean Strategy pitch

1st in Oceania · Top 30 of 12,700+ globally

product · go-to-market

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OpenAI

Campus Lead

present

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1 of 140 selected from 14,000 global applicants

Icehouse Ventures

Quantitative Research & ML Engineer

07/2026 - 09/2026

Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand's most active VC firm. Built a prospect-scoring model over 2,000+ founders and a semantic deal-search agent

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Frontier Space Lab

Head of Technology

05/2026 - present

San Francisco, California, Virtual

Built Crucible, a simulation IDE unifying 11 physics solvers. Leading the lunar-surface simulator team

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WakaForward

Machine Learning Engineer

01/2026 - 07/2026

Remote

OCR + field-extraction pipeline that automated ~68% of freight admin work

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Enspire Limited

Co-Founder & Full-Stack Developer

01/2025 - present

Remote

AI book summaries, 10,000+ monthly active users across 8 countries

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NCEAGrader

Founder & Lead Engineer

07/2021 - present

Auckland, New Zealand

AI grading platform, 22 to 1,435+ users across 10+ schools

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Office of MP Dan Bidois

Data Analyst

07/2021 - 09/2025

Auckland, New Zealand

National dataset of 153 NZ school boards for education policy analysis

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Brown University

B.S. Applied Mathematics & Computer Science

class of 2030

Providence, Rhode Island

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languages PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaHTML/CSS

ml/data scikit-learnHugging FaceOpenAI APIAgentsembeddings + RAGAWS Textract

web/infra ReactNext.jsMongoDBAWS S3DockerVercelGit

quant Black-76SVI/SSVIgradient boosting