Xiaochuan Yu
Senior Software Engineer at Faire
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolXiaochuan Yu is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, stakeholder-facing products and backend systems across fintech and platform teams. He has shipped payments and issuing workflows at Stripe, equity management features at Carta, and now contributes to product delivery at Faire, combining strong backend engineering with DevOps sensibilities. His early work spans anti-spam ML systems, RDS and ad targeting co-ops, and data deduplication—showing a pattern of tackling production-scale data and reliability challenges. An active contributor to infrastructure tooling, he improved Exhibitor’s monitoring, backup and recovery behaviors and added pragmatic observability and CLI options. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he brings pragmatic problem solving from both startup and large-company contexts and a hands-on approach to operational robustness. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at A.Y. Jackson S.S.Bachelors of Software Engeering, Bachelors of Software Engeering at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
java10
javas10
parsing10
testing9
command-line-interface9
libgdx9
testng9
command-line9
cli9
wpf9
backup7
android6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
soabase/exhibitor
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
ZooKeeper co-process for instance monitoring, backup/recovery, cleanup and visualization.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 commits, 46 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiaochuan's contributions primarily involved improving the Exhibitor system's functionality and maintainability. They fixed deprecated methods for parsing JSON, disabled a flaky test, and added a command-line option to specify the listening address. The user also added logging for better monitoring and addressed an issue related to missing backup provider configuration.
zookeeperrecoveryjavamonitoringbackup
xiaochuanyu/rust-by-example
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Learn Rust with examples (Live code editor included)
Contributions:13 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 10 months
rustlive-coderust-learnplaygroundcode-editor
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