Summary
Chen Xu is a Staff Software Engineer and test lead at Waymo with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems for autonomous vehicle behavior evaluation, metric development, and curated dataset mining. Previously at Uber he designed and scaled PySpark/Airflow machine learning pipelines and built real-time Python services for marketplace pricing and rider engagement across hundreds of cities. Chen combines hands-on engineering—simulation, ETL, and realtime stack—with systems-level architecture and operational rigor, having moved from internships at Google to production leadership roles. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a master's in computer science from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. A practical problem solver, he focuses on turning noisy real-world data into actionable metrics that improve onboard decisioning.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Compuer Science, Master's degree Compuer Science at University of Chicago
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese