Michael Xu
McKinney,TX
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
Cardlift
07.2024 - Current
- Planning out and executing integrations with fintech clients and our platform.
- Designing extension features and delegating tasks for implementation of said features
- Improve extension reliability and investigating production related issues
Senior Software Engineer
Gazelle
11.2023 - 07.2024
- Implemented remote sensing algorithms using typescript and Google Earth Engine API
- Designed and Implemented a horizontally scalable backend + data layer using Express and Redis
- Improved readability of codebase through refactoring
- Migrated from react component state management to Redux
- Mentored fellow engineers with writing maintainable code and troubleshooting
Software Engineer
Kumospace
08.2022 - 09.2023
- Developed + launched mobile app from scratch using Flutter, over 100,000+ users
- Created customer analytics dashboard from scratch using typescript + d3
- Refactored codebase to use common react UI components, improved UI consistency + removed hundreds of lines of unnecessary code
- Triaged and solved critical issues with mobile app performance post-launch
Software Engineer
Amazon
07.2021 - 08.2022
- Worked on the Shipping Calculation Team
- Optimized shipping calculation algorithms, reducing latency up to 20% for certain cases
- Cut down the miss rate of estimates by 5% in Eastern Europe, affecting hundreds of thousands of users
- Found + fixed critical issues with team's AWS configuration, cutting monthly database costs from $80,000 > $60,000
- Worked on 200+ support tickets while on-call, resolving large scale degradations of client experience
Founding Engineer
Octoshop
08.2020 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Acquired by Ibotta
- Created welcome flow + landing page for the Octoshop chrome extension in React + Typescript
- Wrote the essential web scrapers to retrieve online retailers using Nodejs and puppeteer
- Implemented critical authentication infrastructure from scratch
- Optimized extension code performance, reducing the extension's memory footprint by 90%
- $0 -> $300k ARR -> Multi million dollar acquisition in 18 months
- Over 800,000 users
- Acquired by Ibotta
Education
B.S. - Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
05.2021
Skills
- HTML/React
- Javascript/Typescript
- SQL/NoSQL Prisma
- Product management
- Application/database design
Timeline
Chief Technology Officer
Cardlift
07.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Gazelle
11.2023 - 07.2024
Software Engineer
Kumospace
08.2022 - 09.2023
Software Engineer
Amazon
07.2021 - 08.2022
Founding Engineer
Octoshop
08.2020 - 06.2021
B.S. - Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas