Yu Xia
Engineering Manager at 8am
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Xia is an engineering manager in San Diego with 13 years of full‑stack experience building legal‑tech products and payment systems, currently leading engineering at 8am after a long tenure at MyCase. He blends front‑end expertise in JavaScript, React/React Native and GraphQL with back‑end Ruby on Rails experience to ship customer‑facing features like smart time tracking, mobile apps, and payment infrastructure for growing law‑firm customers. Yu holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UC San Diego and has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production—starting products from scratch at Pandexa and helping an early Beijing startup reach its first orders. Known for bridging product and engineering, he pairs hands‑on coding with technical leadership and a pragmatic focus on scalable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBeijing National Day School
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
1,586reputation
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43answers
5questions
Github Skills (88)
coverage10
realm10
nosql-database10
test-coverage10
pattern10
golang10
imports10
dynamic-programming10
algorithm10
go10
algorithms10
math10
facebook10
eslint-plugin10
reactive9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dotcom900825/ucsd-hci-class-management
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Class management tool
Contributions:30 PRs, 157 pushes, 15 comments in 1 year 2 months
management-toolclass-management
mycase/active_merchant
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Contributions:13 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
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