Alexander Yu
Senior Technical Writer at Xandery
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Yu is a Senior Technical Writer with a nine-year foundation in software engineering and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley, currently based in San Francisco. He blends deep technical experience at Amazon—where he moved from SDE roles on CloudFormation and EMR to senior writing for AWS Lambda—with freelance content work that spans blogging, copywriting, and developer-facing documentation. At Databricks he continues to translate complex distributed systems and cloud-native concepts into clear, actionable content for engineers and product teams. His background as a software developer gives him first-hand credibility when designing documentation, API guides, and developer tutorials that anticipate implementation pitfalls. Outside of product roles he has taught coding, led a high-school newspaper to national recognition, and sustained a freelance practice, demonstrating both pedagogical skill and editorial discipline. Colleagues rely on him to turn intricate technical details into concise narratives that accelerate developer onboarding and product adoption.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The SMIC Private School
Chinese, Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (117)
proxy10
high-performance10
golang9
testing9
accelerator9
transport9
network-programming9
quic9
rust8
firefox8
api8
proxies8
use-http8
cloud-native8
security8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
triplewy/simpledb
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:67 commits, 66 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
Brown-NSG/microservices-demo
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Sample cloud-native application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC and OpenCensus.
Contributions:121 commits in 6 months
cloud-samplegrpcistiokubernetesopencensus
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