Summary
Annie Xu is a Staff Customer Engineer specializing in Strategic AI, bringing seven years of experience at the intersection of data, cloud, and business outcomes while based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Google and Microsoft, leading Data & AI teams and conversational AI efforts that translate complex models into production-ready solutions for enterprise customers. Annie pairs deep hands-on engineering background in data platforms with customer-facing strategy, enabling measurable impact on adoption and ROI for AI initiatives. She also mentors communities internally, having led Google’s Data and AI community and served as a team lead, demonstrating an ability to scale technical best practices across organizations. Outside of her day job she invests as an angel with Gaingels, signaling an interest in early-stage founders and emerging tech trends. Her academic mix—MS in Information Systems plus ongoing Stanford LEAD—underscores a blend of technical rigor and business acumen that drives pragmatic, high-impact AI deployments.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Master's degree Information Systems, Master's degree Information Systems at Indiana University Bloomington
Certificate Accounting and Finance, Certificate Accounting and Finance at Harvard Extension School
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at East China University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English