About

Xinyan Xu is a highly skilled software engineer with over 5 years of experience in the industry. Currently, she is working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where she is responsible for developing and maintaining software applications. With her expertise in software engineering, she has been able to deliver high-quality products that meet the needs of her clients. Xinyan is actively looking for a full-time software engineer position in the SF Bay area. She has previously worked at Google as a Software Engineer and at the University of California Davis as a Graduate Student Research Assistant. During her time at UC Davis, she built a codebase in Python that scraped data from different resources, grouped them using NLP, and collected potential important factors in faculty-level recruitment among UC systems. She also developed a metric to do fuzzy text string matching from MySQL database, text files in XML format, and domain API using Levenshtein distance to feed as parameters to a RESTful API. Additionally, she constructed and managed a MySQL database and wrote procedures to automate organizing and extracting data across 10 databases containing over 100,000 records. Xinyan has an impressive educational background, with a Master's degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of California Davis and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. Her technical skills include Software Engineering, Research Scientist, MySQL, NLP, and Python. In summary, Xinyan Xu is a highly skilled software engineer with extensive experience in the industry. She is passionate about developing software applications and delivering high-quality products that meet the needs of her clients. With her impressive educational background and technical skills, she is an asset to any organization looking to hire a talented software engineer.