Da Xu
Director Of Engineering at TikTok
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDa Xu is a seasoned engineering leader with eight years of experience heading creative tools and video creation platforms at ByteDance and TikTok, now serving as Director of Engineering in Los Altos. He has led teams building end-to-end video creation solutions and creation platforms that power TikTok, Douyin, and external clients, combining product vision with hands-on technical direction. Earlier roles at Airbnb, Tencent, Yahoo, and Wandou Labs show deep mobile and performance optimization expertise, including Android UI frameworks and lockscreen innovations. An active front-end contributor to the popular semi-design React UI library, he focuses on UX improvements, accessibility of demos, and improved test coverage. Trained in biosystems engineering and computer science at Beihang University, he blends multidisciplinary problem-solving with scaled product engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns complex creative workflows into polished, production-grade experiences.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biological/Biosystems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biological/Biosystems Engineering at Beihang University
Github Skills (4)
react10
javascript10
ui-components10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DouyinFE/semi-design
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
🚀A modern, comprehensive, flexible design system and React UI library. 🎨 Provide more than 3000+ Design Tokens, easy to build your design system. Make Semi Design to Any Design. 🧑🏻💻 Design to Code in one click
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 550 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Da primarily focused on UI improvements and bug fixes related to the "semi-design" React UI library. Their contributions included fixing design documentation jumps for popovers and select dropdowns, enhancing the user interface with more friendly demo cases and hook implementations, and adding a feature for the rendering of an anchor media selector. Furthermore, the user contributed to enhancing the component's test case with react-dnd functionality.
tokensdesignopsdark-modereact-uiui-components
DaiQiangReal/DaiQiangReal.github.io
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:51 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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