Maxime Xu
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxime Xu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with seven years of experience building production systems across LinkedIn, AWS, Amazon IoT, and high-frequency trading at TickTrade. He specializes in shipping backend and product-focused features at scale, drawing on earlier work in optics and materials research to bring a rigorously experimental mindset to software problems. Maxime also pursues low-level engineering passion projects—authoring the Z-Treme engine for the Sega Saturn—highlighting a deep comfort with systems, tooling, and performance. Comfortable in both research and product environments, he bridges hardware-adjacent domains and cloud-native software to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Colonel By S.S.University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
sega-genesis7
680007
zx-spectrum7
z807
megadrive6
apple26
commodore6
genesis6
sega5
nintendo-ds5
console4
sonic4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Maxime-XL2/SONIC-Z-TREME
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Sonic Z-Treme project for the Sega Saturn game console
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
saturnconsole-gameconsole68000genesis
Maxime-XL2/Z-Treme-Engine-model-converter
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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