Julie Xia
Technical Lead at Asana
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulie Xia is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable developer tooling and backend systems, currently at Asana after roles at GiveDirectly and Google. She contributed core logic to Bazel’s build and query systems—helping improve dependency analysis and multi-platform configuration—and added practical features like Maven source-jar handling and advanced Starlark transition examples. Julie combines strong analytical programming skills with a mission-driven focus: she aims to apply technology to reduce inequalities and address environmental challenges. Her background includes computer science training at Amherst College and study abroad in Budapest, plus early research work in parallel computing and CUDA. Based in New York, she balances technical rigor with community-minded experience from admissions and sustainability projects. Outside work she stays active in ultimate frisbee, rock climbing, and hiking, reflecting a collaborative, outdoors-oriented approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Amherst College
Chinese, French
Github Skills (8)
javas10
configuration-management10
starlark10
build-system10
bazel10
build-automation10
java10
maven9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Aug 2017 - Feb 2021
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 247 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Julie focused on implementing and refactoring core build system logic. Their contributions involved modifying the MavenDownloader class to pull maven -src jars alongside jars and decompressor code, improving the handling of external Java dependencies. They also worked on the configuration framework, implementing platform-related rules and integrating these with selects, with related work in the config_setting, which included adding attributes.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
bazelbuild/examples
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Examples for Bazel
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 27 PRs, 63 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Julie contributed to the development of examples for the Bazel build system, focusing on advanced configuration features. Their work included creating examples demonstrating Starlark transitions, build settings, and how to use Skylib build settings. The commits cover a variety of scenarios, such as multi-architecture binary builds and attaching transitions to rules.
bazel
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