Hugh Xie
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Xie is a software engineer with a decade of experience building polished web interfaces and conversion-focused flows at companies like Stripe, Robinhood, and Shopify. He has deep front-end expertise—helping migrate Rails to React in Shopify’s admin and contributing UI fixes and testing improvements to notable open-source projects such as Shopify/quilt. At Robinhood he focused on funnel optimization to boost user conversion and funding, and at Stripe he continues to apply that product-minded engineering approach. Hugh’s open-source work includes visual improvements to a popular GitHub contributions extension, demonstrating an eye for usable data presentation and responsive design. Comfortable across large codebases and CI/CD infrastructure from internships at Microsoft to production systems, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to UX details. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Carleton with a consistent track record of shipping measurable product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Pius X High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carleton University
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Github Skills (12)
css10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
enzyme9
jestjs9
testing9
isometric7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/quilt
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily contributed to the front-end of the project by modifying and adding to the `packages/` directory, which appears to be the location of individual components and utilities. Their work involved fixing issues related to Enzyme and Jest testing, as well as updating code in existing UI components. The user's changes included bug fixes, refactoring, and component adjustments to improve the overall functionality and performance of the user interface.
react-modaljavascriptshopify-apijavascript-typescriptcjs
jasonlong/isometric-contributions
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Browser extension for rendering an isometric pixel art version of your GitHub contribution graph.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily focused on enhancing the visual representation of a GitHub contribution graph by adding a week total feature. This involved modifying the JavaScript code to calculate and display weekly contribution sums, alongside adjustments to CSS for responsive design across various screen sizes. They integrated the "week total" feature into the UI and further refined the display logic through subsequent commits, while also removing a breakpoint from the CSS. The primary focus appears to be on enhancing the presentation of contribution data.
artbrowsercssisometricpixel-art
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