George Xu
Software Engineer 2 at Slack
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Xu is a Software Engineer 2 at Slack with eight years of experience building and shipping desktop applications and tooling, blending TypeScript, Node.js, and C++ work on Chromium-based clients. A long-time Electron core maintainer, he has driven critical build and CI overhauls (Bolt→Lerna, GitHub Actions→CircleCI) and contributed user-facing APIs and features across electron/electron, fiddle, and forge. He brings practical expertise in build tooling, CI/CD, and runtime engineering from internships to senior roles at Slack, while scaling open-source projects relied on by apps like VS Code and Figma. Based in Seattle and trained in combined Business and Computer Science at UBC, he pairs product-minded engineering with an attention to developer experience—plus a surprising background as an ex-Costco member and pourover coffee enthusiast.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Combined Major in Business and Computer Science Commerce and Computer Science, Combined Major in Business and Computer Science Commerce and Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
electron10
wp-api10
typescript10
lerna10
winapi10
circleci10
cicd10
automation10
build210
typescript-types10
automations10
typescripts10
ws-api10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
electron/forge
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
:electron: A complete tool for building and publishing Electron applications
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 releases, 68 reviews, 41 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:George's contributions primarily revolve around automating build processes, CI/CD pipeline improvements, and dependency management within the Electron Forge project. They migrated the build system from Bolt to Lerna, a key architectural change. Further, they implemented husky pre-push scripts and migrated the CI system from GitHub Actions to CircleCI. Their work also encompassed upgrading dependencies and fixing links related to the project's documentation.
electron-applicationspublishingelectronwindowsjavascript
electron/fiddle
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
:electron: 🚀 The easiest way to get started with Electron
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the Electron Fiddle project by implementing new features and enhancing existing functionality. Their work includes adding features such as recent document handling and adding a searchable console. The user also refactored the console to use mobx observer. In addition, they added an option to disable output timestamps and fixed context menu go to and peek definition actions.
electronget-startedjavascriptdesktopmacos
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