Summary
Xie Yu is a software developer with 14 years of experience specializing in graphics and mobile game performance, currently working at Opera Beijing on the Sphinx project that uses Presto, OpenGL ES, and asynchronous rendering to accelerate HTML5 games on mobile. He is proficient in C++, Java, Python and comfortable across Android, Linux toolchains, Vim/Git and Xcode, with additional familiarity in JavaScript and CoffeeScript. His background includes a Master's in Computer Science from Nanjing University and a Bachelor’s from Southeast University, grounding his systems and graphics expertise in strong academic training. At Opera he focuses on practical performance engineering—optimizing rendering pipelines and resource-constrained devices rather than purely feature work. He maintains a technical blog and an active GitHub, signaling ongoing experimentation and public-facing projects. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who bridges low-level graphics work with mobile platform realities.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Nanjing University
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Southeast University