Alvin Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Xu is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale audio features and AR experiences, currently working on audio at Meta in New York. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Meta across Menlo Park, Burlingame, and New York, bringing product-focused implementation skills to complex platform initiatives. A Queen’s-trained computer engineer, Alvin blends systems-level thinking with applied AR development and a background in technical leadership from startups in Toronto. He’s comfortable shipping cross-disciplinary features that touch mobile, backend, and real-time audio pipelines. Known for moving between research-adjacent projects and production delivery, he pairs curious experimentation with rigorous execution. Outside core product work, he draws on his AR and computer engineering roots to explore novel audio-AR interactions that scale to billions of users.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (5)
debug9
debugging8
windows6
desktop6
cross-platform5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alvinzxu/RedditVisualizer
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
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michaelgifford/Cecropia
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 7 days
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