Shirley Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShirley Xu is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms, currently helping keep over 2.8 million Heroku data stores performant at Salesforce. She has driven greenfield features and security hardening at HashiCorp’s Waypoint—owning ephemeral runner orchestration, IAM/OCI auth, RBAC, and encrypted credential storage—and contributed Docker multi-platform and CLI improvements to the open-source Waypoint repo. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and infra (Python, Go, SQL, Ruby, C++ and more), Shirley pairs rigorous security training (MS Cybersecurity) with product-focused engineering, customer interviews, and technical marketing. Her interdisciplinary background in international affairs and entrepreneurship informs a global, people-first approach to mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. Notably, she co-founded a talent agency and speaks multiple languages, reflecting curiosity and leadership beyond code.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lowell High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity at New York UniversitySoftware Engineering Fellowship, Software Engineering Fellowship at Hackbright Academy
Github Skills (9)
docker10
dockers10
go9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
cicd8
nomad6
gcp6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/waypoint
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:200 reviews, 355 commits, 103 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Shirley focused on enhancing the Waypoint platform's Docker integration and deployment capabilities. They added a platform flag to the Docker build process, enabling multi-platform container builds, and modified related documentation to reflect the new functionality. Furthermore, the user contributed to the CLI by including pipeline and related run information in various listings and improving error messaging for GCP deployments.
dockerdevops
xiaolin-ninja/BudBud
Feb 2018 - Oct 2021
BudBud: A Buddy for your Bud! The perfect cannabis companion.
Contributions:1 release, 176 commits, 54 pushes in 3 years 8 months
buddycannabisperfectbudcompanion
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