Arthur Xu
email r2ysxu@gmail.com
phone (925) 548 - 7588
phone r2ysxu.com

Skills

HTML

CSS Responsive

Javascript

React Redux Angular jQuery JSON AJAX WebGL

REST

GraphQL

Relay Apollo

Websocket

Java

J2EE Spring Play EJB Hibernate/JPA Ebean Maven Gradle JSP/JSF Kafka Android

Hack

NodeJS

C#

.NET

SQL

mySQL Postgres Sqlite H2 Oracle T-SQL

Source Control

Git SVN Hg

Deployment

Jenkins Docker

Education

University of Waterloo

Jun 2015
Computer Science,
Economics Minor,
Co-operative Program

    Coops
    4 month terms


    Citi
    Desire2Learn
    Marsh & McLennan
    Nav Canada
    Bronte College
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada

    Work Experience

    Five9 Software Engineer
    Aug 2021 - Present

    Call Center Solutions
    • Designed and built core application features such as calls, emails etc
    • Set-up cloud integrations and unit test frameworks
    Facebook Software Engineer - Partnerships
    Nov 2019 - Feb 2021

    Social media company
    • Designed and built platform tools aimed at increasing return of investments from external partners including contracts, notifications, action framework and framework to manage partners.
    • Built tools to manage Facebook News curation helping to drive user impact on events like the 2020 election and COVID
    • Managed office hours to support other engineers and cross functional stakeholders to better drive engagement and support for the tool
    • Worked cross functionally with different stakeholders to drive requirements to scope out necessary tasks and solutions
    • Oncall production support, immediately finding solutions to unblock critical priority issues
    HintMD Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

    Bay area start-up developing SaaS subscription e-commerce & payment platform for aesthetics
    • Developed key features including checkout, refunds, payments, rewards and 3rd party vendor integration
    • Lead several key projects including Checkout & Payments, Rewards Program Integration and 3rd Party Vendor Integration
    • Provided technical expertise in architecturing and early development of key features components and services
    • Profiled & optimized database and server performance
    • Worked with DevOps in publishing releases through the deployment pipeline
    • Provided mentorship to new engineers to expedite their ramp-up process
    • Oncall production and performance support unblocking many critical priority tasks
    SapientRazorfish Full Stack Web Developer
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2017

    Technology solutions company specialized in building web based e‑commerce platforms
    • Developed lottery corporation website with e-commerce, fund transfers, self-exclusion and winning number feed capabilities

    Personal Projects

    Genshin Event Finder
    May 2021
    Social platform for players of online video game to better find events
    Picture Viewer Repository
    Apr 2015
    Social album repository for sharing of images/videos/audio media
    Ovaflow
    June 2014
    Android music game which downloads songs from a central repository
    Chit-chat
    Mar 2014
    Simple web-based chat room with animations