Steve Xie
Founder And CEO at Lightwheel
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai X is a generalist software engineer and repeat founder with about a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack platforms, booking backends, and cloud infrastructure for startups. As the sole technologist at Playces he designed and operated the platform and Kubernetes-backed systems that helped partners increase bookings and revenue substantially, and he’s since co-founded multiple ventures including felt and Prompt Labs. Comfortable across product, infrastructure, and user research, Kai gravitates toward human-centered solutions that work under real-world constraints—low-power, low-connectivity devices and services for vulnerable communities are particular interests. He blends creative tinkering with pragmatic systems design, enjoys getting deep into operational weeds, and prefers small teams where direct user conversation informs iterative experiments. Based in Toronto, he’s open to opportunities that combine technical rigor with social impact and moments of delight.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Decision Risk and Operations, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Decision Risk and Operations at Columbia Business SchoolBS Physics and Economics, BS Physics and Economics at Peking University
Github Skills (116)
react-component10
docker-image10
driver10
pm29
golang9
uikit9
rewrite9
react9
executable9
facebook-messenger9
nodemon9
typescript9
go9
struct-tags9
database8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hulloitskai/home
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:206 pushes, 2 branches, 248 tags in 3 months
chalmersproject/www
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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