Yang Xu
Staff Software Engineer at Michaels Stores
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Xu is a staff software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web platforms and data-driven features, currently driving engineering at Michaels Stores after senior roles at HBO Max and LexisNexis. He blends production-grade Node.js/Next.js engineering with advanced statistical and machine learning expertise—backed by three master’s degrees in informatics, bioinformatics, and biostatistics—to translate complex data into personalized user experiences at scale. His background includes building infectious disease surveillance systems and genomic predictive models, giving him uncommon fluency in both high-throughput data pipelines and user-facing product code. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and analytics stacks, he focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions that meet business needs while surfacing actionable insights from large, noisy datasets.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Informatics, Master's Degree Informatics at University of Iowa
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
umd10
hpcc9
javascript8
typescript8
javascript-framework5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yangxulexis/Visualization
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:25 pushes in 10 months
hpccdata-visualizationvisualization-frameworkvisualization
yangxulexis/Revenue-Adjustment-Process
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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