Summary
Jessica Xie is an experienced infrastructure and DevEx engineer with 11 years building reliable backend systems for high-throughput and AI-focused products. Currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Cohere, she supports NLP services and large language model infrastructure, drawing on prior roles modernizing CI/CD and developer tooling at Bolt and Shopify. She has deep hands-on experience with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and a track record of transforming stateful systems into stateless, scalable services. Early career work in ad tech and video encoding gave her a bias for performance and efficiency at extreme scale. Jessica combines production-first reliability engineering with developer experience improvements that speed teams up without sacrificing stability. Trained as an ECE from the University of Toronto, she brings both research-minded problem solving and pragmatic engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Electrical & Computer Engineering, BASc, Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Toronto