Alvin Xu
Associate Software Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlvin Xu is an Associate Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable, production-grade systems across e-commerce and large-scale cloud platforms. He has driven measurable business impact as a Fractional CTO—scaling an automotive e-commerce site to six-figure revenue and improving conversion metrics—and as an engineer at Amazon where he delivered high-throughput notification and GDPR-compliant data-deletion systems used by millions. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure, he has migrated complex ecosystems with zero downtime and reduced operational costs through thoughtful automation. Based in the UK, Alvin pairs a UBC computer science background with practical product ownership and a penchant for technical writing, having authored dozens of posts that grew organic traffic dramatically. Outside work he’s an avid squash player and former junior coach, a detail that underscores his competitive drive and collaborative coaching style.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sir Winston Churchill High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaInternational Baccaulaureate Diploma, International Baccaulaureate Diploma at International Baccalaureate
English, French
Github Skills (23)
project-management9
task-management9
ats9
correlation9
flutter8
odk8
flutter-apps8
subset7
notion7
content-management7
documentation7
rust6
dart6
flutter-ui6
editor6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ax920/ax920.github.io
Apr 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:43 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
ax920/resume
Aug 2020 - Oct 2023
Software developer resume in Latex
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 years 2 months
latex-templatesoftware-developerdeveloper-resumelatex
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.