Annie Xu
Frontend Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnnie Xu is a frontend developer based in San Francisco with eight years of hands-on experience building user-focused interfaces and production-ready features at companies including AWS and startups. She combines a dual academic background in computer science and psychology from Carnegie Mellon with practical deployment and mobile experience, having shipped push-notification features and minimalist UX components for the AWS Console Mobile App. Annie has contributed to core open-source infrastructure—fixing memory leaks and buffer overflows in the widely used ROS 2 rcl library—bringing a security-minded, back-end troubleshooting perspective to front-end work. Her past roles span full-stack tasks, research-driven product design, and leading small teams, where she translated user needs into tools that improved document and experiment workflows by orders of magnitude. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who pairs rigorous testing and refactoring with thoughtful UX decisions to boost engagement and reliability. She’s seeking opportunities to apply her cross-disciplinary experience to frontend roles that value security, analytics, and measurable user impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
ros10
rc10
security10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/rcl
May 2019 - May 2019
Library to support implementation of language specific ROS Client Libraries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 46 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Annie primarily focused on fixing memory leaks and buffer overflows within the ROS 2 rcl library. Their contributions involved identifying and resolving memory management issues in core components like node initialization, context handling, and security directory functions. They also addressed code quality concerns through refactoring and linting, improving the overall robustness and security of the library.
roboticsros2implementation-supportclient-librariesros
aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-common
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
ROS packages for facilitating the use of AWS cloud services.
Contributions:7 commits, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 months
cloud-servicesaws-cloudros-packagesrosaws
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