Yixuan Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Workstream
Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Top SchoolYixuan Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building performant front-end systems and developer tooling, currently based in Wuhan. He has driven infrastructure and monorepo refactors at Tencent Games that doubled build performance and cut CI/CD times by 30%, and later continued delivering production-grade TypeScript and React solutions across fintech and AI startups. An active open-source contributor, he migrated Nextra to TypeScript and improved testing and bug fixes for Vercel's popular SWR library, plus enhanced a browser-based scientific computing environment (Hedgehog Lab) with web worker improvements and UX features. Comfortable across full-stack and front-end domains, he combines hands-on performance optimization with pragmatic developer-experience improvements that accelerate team delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of LiverpoolMaster of Science - MS, Data Processing, Master of Science - MS, Data Processing at University of SouthamptonBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Github Skills (23)
hook10
javascript10
webworker10
fetchr10
jes10
fetcher10
typescript10
nextjs10
user-interface10
jestjs10
fetch10
typescript-types10
jtest10
static-site-generation10
typescripts10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/swr
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
React Hooks for Data Fetching
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:186 reviews, 60 commits, 158 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yixuan primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of UI components, focusing on data fetching and state management within the React application. Their work involved fixing bugs related to data updates and unmounting components, specifically within the context of the `useSWR` hook. The user also improved the test coverage.
stale-while-revalidatedata-exchangereactdatareact-native
shuding/nextra
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 58 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yixuan primarily contributed to the `nextra` repository, a framework for site generation with Next.js, by migrating the codebase to TypeScript, a major undertaking. They also addressed and fixed potential react key warnings within the blog theme. Additionally, the user adjusted the build system and incorporated new functionality.
everythingreactnext-jsmdxnextra
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