Xin Shao
Senior Software Developer at Harness
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolXin Shao is a Senior Software Developer based in Toronto with five years of professional experience building cloud-native microservices and platform features for companies like Harness, Nuance, and SAP. He combines strong backend expertise in Java and C# with practical frontend skills (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and hands-on experience deploying containerized services to Azure and GCP using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes. At Harness he led efforts to modularize delegate management into a standalone microservice, improved restart performance by batching perpetual tasks and redesigning Mongo iterators, and reduced production costs by enhancing delegate reliability. Xin is comfortable bridging product and engineering—collaborating on workflow design, onboarding teams to license frameworks, and participating in customer on-calls—while keeping code hygiene and technical debt reduction a priority. His background includes migrating legacy systems to multi-tenant cloud environments and pragmatic telemetry-driven performance improvements, reflecting a focus on operational resilience as well as feature delivery.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sichuan UniversityMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science, 3.52/4.30, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science, 3.52/4.30 at Concordia University
English, French
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Github Skills (3)
react5
nextjs4
typescript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
harness/plg-utilities
Sep 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
harness/harness-core
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:308 reviews, 221 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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