Jackie Xu
Engineering Manager at Rippling
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJackie Xu is an engineering manager and former founder with a decade of experience building and scaling developer-first products across startups and fintech. She co-founded two YC-backed ventures—Landed and LogicLoop (acquired by Hummingbird)—where she built end-to-end products used by enterprise customers and pioneered natural-language AI tooling for SQL and operational monitoring. Earlier, she was a founding engineer on Stripe Billing & Invoices and contributed to widely used open-source tooling like stripe-php, improving its error handling and test coverage for rate-limiting scenarios. Based in San Francisco, Jackie combines hands-on backend engineering with people leadership, recruiting and mentoring engineers through rapid growth. Her background spans product, infrastructure, and developer experience, reflecting an unusual mix of startup founder grit and enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyY CombinatorBusiness Adminstration, Business Adminstration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Github Skills (6)
error-handling10
php10
stripe10
testing10
api-design9
phpunit8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-php
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
PHP library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Jackie primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and testing capabilities of the Stripe PHP library. They added specific error handling for rate limiting (HTTP 429) and implemented corresponding tests. The contributions involved modifying the `ApiRequestor` class to incorporate the rate limit error and updating the test suite to verify the correct behavior. These changes improved the robustness and reliability of the library.
apistripestripe-sdkphppayment
stripe/stripe-ruby
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Ruby library for the Stripe API.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
apistripestripe-sdkrubystripe-payments
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