Feiran Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolFeiran Hu is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with four years of hands-on experience building payments and fiat infrastructure at Circle and scalable learning platforms at IXL. He combines a Computer Engineering degree with a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, bringing strong full-stack skills across backend systems, APIs, databases, and frontend frameworks. At Circle he has worked on payments core APIs and money movement for USDC/EURC, and earlier led Google Classroom integrations and analytics-driven grading features at IXL. Feiran has a track record of improving performance and reliability—e.g., optimizing query plans and preventing large data loss during a Sybase-to-Oracle migration at RBC. He is comfortable across C/C++, Java, Python, React/Angular, SQL databases, and DevOps tools, and often blends industry-standard approaches with pragmatic automation to speed delivery. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and shipping production-grade solutions under tight timelines.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chengdu Foreign Languages SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Engineering (Minor in Artificial Intelligence), Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering (Minor in Artificial Intelligence) at University of TorontoMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
circlefin/payments-sample-app
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 29 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
j-kopf/nextJSGraphQLapp_sanitized
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
highbar owners training for prodSec
Contributions:1 PR in 7 days
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