Benjamin Xu
Software Engineer at Instagram
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Xu is a software engineer with eight years of experience building consumer and mixed-reality features for major platforms, currently working on Android video editing at Instagram after driving MR features like Smart Guardian and Scene Capture at Meta/Oculus. A UMass CS senior with strong foundations in algorithms and systems, he has scaled REST APIs for million-node clusters at AWS OpenSearch and contributed full-stack and backend work across internships at Fidelity and Text-Em-All. He enjoys strategic games, which mirrors his aptitude for problem decomposition and product-minded engineering. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on implementation skills with a penchant for applying technology to positive real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
meilisearch10
authentication10
indices10
role-based10
masking10
audit-logging10
logging10
role-based-access-control10
ssl9
security9
data-masking9
audit9
access-control9
opensearch8
certificate6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminxu251/benjaminxu.dev
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:246 pushes, 3 branches, 3 issues in 1 year 5 months
benjaminxu251/security
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
🔐 OpenSearch Security plugin
Contributions:49 pushes, 40 branches in 20 days
securityopensearch
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