Jack Xia
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJack Xia is a software engineer with 8 years’ experience specializing in high-throughput, always-on distributed systems, built from a Computer Science education at the University of Waterloo. He has focused much of his recent career on event ingestion at PagerDuty, progressing through multiple engineering levels while delivering reliable production services. An active open-source contributor to the widely used node-addon-api project, he has contributed robust tests and feature implementations for Node-API integrations in C++, demonstrating attention to low-level correctness and interoperability. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Jack blends backend systems engineering with practical testing discipline—a combination that helps him tame complex async workloads and surface hard-to-catch edge cases.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/node-addon-api
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Module for using Node-API from C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 33 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the testing and implementation of various features within the Node-API module. Their work included adding tests for global object properties (get, set, delete, has), and String manipulation, as well as symbol tests. Further contributions involved creating new tests for function references and async worker tasks.
cppnode-apinodejsnode
JckXia/node-addon-api
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Module for using N-API from C++
Contributions:7 PRs, 172 pushes, 76 branches in 2 years 5 months
apicppn-apinapi
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