Alex Xu
Software Engineer at Clay
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Xu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building product and infrastructure at fast-growing startups and design-focused platforms. After progressing from internships at Databricks, Nextdoor, and drive.ai to full-time engineering at Figma, he now develops at Clay in New York, blending front-end collaboration features with backend reliability. He has a track record of shipping end-to-end systems—from the monolithic LA Hacks application he built to production collaboration tooling at Figma—and brings practical experience in cloud infrastructure and large-scale product teams. Comfortable across the stack, Alex pairs product-minded engineering with a history of student leadership roles that emphasize shipping under tight timelines. Based in NYC and reachable at xualexander1@gmail.com, he combines a UCLA CS foundation with hands-on startup execution and a knack for turning event-grade systems into maintainable products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (27)
agora5
frontend3
react3
redux3
rap2
ride2
foundation2
reactive2
mount2
cdr2
mls2
adobe-xd2
server2
menu2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ucladevx/BPool-Frontend
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
xualexander/xualexander.github.io
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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