Summary
Stanley Xu is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently a Software Developer 2 at Wealthsimple after four years at Shopify. He specializes in performance tuning, telemetry-driven decision making, and delivering merchant-facing features—having led work on search, navigation, branding APIs, and performance analyses for product launches. His background spans full-stack work across Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET, and C++, with early roles improving test reliability and analytics dashboards that accelerated team productivity. Stanley’s approach blends hands-on code refactors (rewriting brittle test suites and performance-critical components) with pragmatic design and POCs to de-risk feature rollouts. A Waterloo computer science graduate based in Canada, he brings both strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of making complex systems faster and more maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo