Erica Xu
Co-Founder at Dynalist
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErica Xu is a seasoned full-stack founder and engineer with 13 years of experience building polished web products from frontend interactions to backend data pipelines. As Co-Founder of Obsidian and Dynalist, she blends UI/UX design, frontend development, and customer-facing work to shape product direction and ship features. Her technical toolkit spans JavaScript (including Node, AngularJS, jQuery), CSS/SASS, HTML, and backend systems like MongoDB and MapReduce, informed by early internships at Quizlet and mapping work that delivered measurable productivity gains. Erica’s open-source automation work on the high-visibility Obsidian releases repository demonstrates a knack for improving developer tooling and analytics through GitHub Actions and data aggregation. Based in Waterloo, she pairs entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on engineering, often tackling the gaps between user experience and scalable implementation.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Canadian International AcademyBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)
github-ci10
javascript10
automation10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
json9
obsidian9
api8
nodejs8
apim8
html6
redirect6
google-chrome-extension6
php6
linux6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
obsidianmd/obsidian-releases
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 281 commits, 338 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Erica focused on automating plugin stats updates within the Obsidian-releases repository. They implemented and refined a GitHub Actions workflow to fetch release data, calculate download statistics, and update a JSON file. The user consistently updated the update-stats.js script to improve the data collection process, specifically focusing on retrieving the latest release information and refining the download count calculations. The contributions streamline the data aggregation process.
obsidianobsidian-mdbasesjsoncanvasmarkdown
ericaxu/gemmy
Mar 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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