Xuye Cai
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
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Top SchoolXuye Cai is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years' experience building developer tools and multimedia SDKs, most recently maintaining audio-visual effects for ByteDance products like TikTok and CapCut. With a background in mechanical engineering from Columbia and Huazhong University, he bridges hardware-aware thinking and software craftsmanship, having worked on CloudIDE, Theia, and VS Code extensions at Huawei. As a full‑stack contributor to the popular Eclipse Theia project, he improved editor/preview synchronization and terminal behavior, demonstrating deep familiarity with IDE architecture and UX. Comfortable across frontend, backend and native-leaning domains, he combines systems-level insight with product-focused delivery for consumer and developer-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 4, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 4 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, 机械设计制造及其自动化, 90.28, Bachelor's degree, 机械设计制造及其自动化, 90.28 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
cloud9-ide10
editors10
ide10
typescript10
javascript10
terminal-emulator10
typescripts10
terminal-application10
editor10
typescript-types10
react9
electron9
language-server-protocol8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-theia/theia
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Xuye primarily contributed to the Theia IDE framework, focusing on improving the user experience and fixing bugs related to the editor and terminal components. They implemented features to synchronize the preview with the editor, removed the "dirty" state of the editor upon content revert, and enhanced the terminal's behavior. Their work involved modifications across multiple files, including core components, editor, and preview modules, demonstrating a broad understanding of the IDE's architecture and its various functionalities.
cloud-ideide-frameworkelectrontheiajavascript
a1994846931931/theia
May 2019 - May 2020
Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Contributions:45 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
ide-frameworktheiajavascriptnodejside
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