John Xu
Software Architect at Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Xu is a seasoned Software Architect and full‑stack engineer with over fifteen years of professional experience and 11 years in recent industry roles, based in San Francisco. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems into SPAs and microservices, improving performance (e.g., cutting menu load times from ~20s to <5s) and delivering production-grade APIs and cloud-native solutions using Node.js, React/Next.js, TypeScript and AWS. John combines hands-on front-end expertise across Vue/React/Angular and deep back-end skills (Node, PHP, Java, databases, REST) with operational know-how in Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and security integrations like Okta. He has built decentralized and Web3 prototypes (IPFS, Solidity, Web3.js) and digital PDF microservices, showing a willingness to adopt bleeding‑edge stacks for product MVPs. A Master of Engineering, John pairs enterprise experience at banks and HR platforms with startup agility, often improving developer workflows and test coverage to drive reliable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Management Information Systems, General, Master of Engineering - MEng, Management Information Systems, General at Central South University
Github Skills (27)
timeseries-database10
low-latency10
monitoring9
kubernetes9
python9
datepicker8
ace8
hosting8
time-series8
ajax7
javascript7
date-fns7
react7
oms7
cloud96
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xizi-xu/Argus
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Time series monitoring and alerting platform.
Contributions:227 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years
alertingmetricstime-seriesmonitoring
xizi-xu/iterm2Setting
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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