Nicolas Xu
Technical Lead at Facebook
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Xu is a technical lead with 11 years of experience building interactive games and social VR, currently leading player interaction work for Facebook Horizon in Boston. He bridges game programming and web technologies—bringing AngularJS/Node.js fluency from earlier web and browser-game projects into immersive AR/VR product development. His background includes shipping free-to-play mobile titles and a large-scale browser strategy game at TECMO KOEI, plus hands-on work on Facebook Spaces before Horizon. A Carnegie Mellon Master of Entertainment Technology, he combines gameplay polish with systems-minded engineering to craft social experiences at scale. Notably, he applies front-end and real-time interaction expertise to make VR feel both responsive and socially natural.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Entertainment Technology, Entertainment Technoloyy, Master of Entertainment Technology, Entertainment Technoloyy at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (153)
mailchimp10
postmark10
inline-css10
mandrill10
webapi10
sendgrid9
rest9
phantomjs9
mediarecorder9
nodemailer9
specification9
openapi9
ejs9
mediarecorder-api9
inline9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nicolasxu/front-end-knowledge
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:157 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
nicolasxu/vixmonitor
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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