Robert Xu
Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Security
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Xu is a Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Security with 15 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across authorization, billing, commerce, and consumer-facing platforms. He is a polyglot engineer who primarily codes in Go, Java, C, and TypeScript and has deep operational familiarity with Docker, DNS, email, and distributed systems. His career spans Shopbop fashion tech to AWS Commerce and now security, reflecting a rare blend of customer-facing product experience and core infrastructure expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed to the widely used hashicorp/raft Go implementation, improving peer management and state transitions in a consensus library. Robert holds a BS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and often brings pragmatic, test-driven solutions informed by both enterprise scale and low-level systems work.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Thomas Sprigg Wootton High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Stony Brook UniversityScience Technology, Science Technology at Academy of Information TechnologyMontgomery College
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
raft10
go10
raft-protocol10
concurrency9
testing9
actionscript6
html6
javascript6
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/raft
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Robert Xu contributed to the core functionality of the Raft consensus protocol implementation in Go. His work focused on adding the `SetPeers()` method for dynamically updating the peer set and addressing threading issues related to peer management. He also added tests for the `SetPeers` method. Furthermore, he made adjustments to state transitions within the Raft state machine, specifically regarding candidate state.
golangraft-consensusraft-consensus-algorithmconsensus-protocolconsensus
robxu9/bash-static
Jan 2015 - Oct 2022
Because we need exercises in minimalism.
Contributions:12 releases, 45 commits, 32 PRs in 7 years 9 months
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