Summary
Shaohui Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems for payments, lending, e-commerce, and consumer financial products across Microsoft, Affirm, Valon, and Method. He blends product-minded engineering with close cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, user-focused solutions in environments ranging from large tech to late-stage startups. At Affirm he worked on both merchant and direct-to-consumer engineering including card acquisition and onboarding, and at Valon focused on consumer lending and insurance—demonstrating a breadth across the financial product lifecycle. A Georgia Tech double major in Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics, Shaohui also founded and organized HackGT, showing a long-standing commitment to community-driven engineering and event leadership. Notably, his background includes research in combinatorics and computer vision, reflecting a rigorously analytical approach beneath his product instincts.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Discrete Mathematics (Double Majors), Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Discrete Mathematics (Double Majors) at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English