Summary
O Xia is an Innovation Fellow who blends 11 years of software engineering experience with a Harvard Law JD to build practical technology solutions at the intersection of law and tech. With prior full‑stack roles at Google and internships at Microsoft, he has shipped large-scale frontend systems for advertising and consumer platforms and now applies that engineering rigor to legal innovation at Orrick. He led the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology as Editor‑in‑Chief, signaling deep domain knowledge in tech policy and scholarship alongside hands-on coding. Based in Cambridge, he brings a rare combination of product-level implementation experience, legal analysis, and operational intuition—often translating complex regulatory or procedural problems into automatable, auditable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.), Computer Science & Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.), Computer Science & Business Administration at University of Washington
Doctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at Harvard Law School