Anda Xu
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnda Xu is a software engineer with 9 years of experience in backend and distributed systems, currently based in San Francisco and actively seeking Bay Area opportunities. She has shipped production systems at LinkedIn and Uber after contributing to container and build tooling at Docker, including test reliability and buildkit configuration fixes in the high-profile Moby project. Her background includes research on task-mapping algorithms for supercomputer simulators, demonstrating a mix of practical production engineering and algorithmic thinking. Comfortable across DevOps and backend domains, she brings a bias for improving build/test pipelines and making distributed systems more robust—off the keyboard she also plays piano, hinting at a creative, detail-oriented problem solver.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Knox College
Github Skills (9)
golang10
container10
buildkit10
docker10
go10
buildkite10
dockers10
cicd9
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
moby/moby
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 84 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anda primarily contributed to the project by removing retries for service updates and fixing and skipping tests based on the API version. They also made further integration fixes and added API version checking for tests from new features. Additionally, the user addressed a failed test and added optional fields in daemon.json to enable buildkit, indicating involvement in build and deployment configurations. These contributions suggest a focus on improving the build process and ensuring test reliability, likely within the context of a containerized environment.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
AntaresS/moby
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Contributions:146 pushes, 17 branches, 3 comments in 11 months
containerscollaborative-projectcontainer-ecosystemdockerecosystem
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