Xi Xiao
Founder, Consultant at Elisa
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolXi Xiao is a Finland-based Salesforce developer, founder, and consultant with a decade of experience building enterprise collaboration and CRM solutions across companies like KONE, Fluido, Elisa, and his own VigorMinds. He combines hands-on Salesforce engineering with tooling and developer experience work—authoring an Apex formatter (afmt) and a Salesforce Neovim plugin (sf.nvim)—and shares learning through his Salesforce-focused podcast and blog. Comfortable at the intersection of DevOps, developer tooling, and platform configuration, he has steered ERP and collaboration platform initiatives as well as lightweight engineering teams. Xi explores functional programming concepts in his work and open-source projects, bringing a disciplined, research-minded approach to practical problems. His background in mobile computing and industrial management informs a user- and process-oriented perspective on systems design and automation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, industrial management, Master's degree, industrial management at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesSc. Master, Mobile Computing, Sc. Master, Mobile Computing at Helsinki University of TechnologyMaster of Science degree; Bachelor of Science degree, Mobile Computing; Computer Science and Technology, Master of Science degree; Bachelor of Science degree, Mobile Computing; Computer Science and Technology at 2005-2008.11 Aalto University (Helsinki University of Technology)
English, Chinese, Finnish
Stackoverflow
963reputation
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9answers
35questions
Github Skills (200)
parser10
abstraction10
vim10
lua10
cordova-plugin10
command-line-tool10
nvim10
tree-sitter10
quickbooks10
cloc10
salesforcedx10
salesforce10
membership10
abstraction-layer10
soql10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
xixiaofinland/afmt
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Salesforce Apex code formatter written in Rust
Contributions:16 releases, 140 PRs, 1939 pushes in 7 months
xixiaofinland/sfdx-cheatsheet
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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