Summary
Serena Xu is a backend-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across healthcare, biotech, and consumer tech, now working at Meta in New York. She excels in Python and API frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), and cloud-native ML Ops on AWS, and has a track record of improving performance and reliability in high-throughput services. At Capsule she revamped a medication ordering backend serving 80k+ users and engineered real-time order leaderboards that cut processing time and errors substantially, and at BenevolentAI she built genome-ranking ML orchestration with 99% consistency while speeding CI/CD and template-driven service deployment. Serena pairs strong implementation skills with production testing and automation experience, having driven full CI/CD, integration testing, and system design that measurably increased team efficiency. She combines a research background from Boston University with practical ops experience, which helps her bridge ML research and robust backend delivery.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Sciences General at Sanda University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Boston University
Chinese, English