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.
11 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 (184)
parser10
backbonejs10
command-line-tool10
tree-sitter10
quickbooks10
linux10
cloc10
salesforce10
cli10
salesforce-development10
membership10
apex10
oms10
neovim-plugin10
ancestry10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
xixiaofinland/sfdx-cheatsheet
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
xixiaofinland/dotfiles-nix
Jun 2024 - Feb 2026
dotfiles managed by nix flake
Contributions:1 PR, 887 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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