My Profile

Yu Xia

Full Stack Web Developer

Hello!

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Skills

  • Programming

  • CSS, HTML, Javascript - Two year fullstack web development experience
  • Ruby on Rails 3.2.x, 4.x - Multiple projects experience
  • Node.js, AngularJS - Learning the rope
  • C - Mostly for school's course work
  • Java - Played Android and Hadoop before
  • Git - Familiar with Git Work-flows and active users on Github

Education

MS Computer Science - University of California San Diego

2013/9-2015/6(expected)

B.E Comunication Engineering - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication

2009/9-2013/7

Work Experiences

Engineering Lead for www.pandexa.com.

2013/11 - now

Developed the website from scratch, designed the business work flow and related website functionality, implemented the admin dashboard, analytic panel for operation staffs, collaborated with graphic designer and business associate to work on different aspects of the site. Technology used: Rails 4.x, Bootstrap 3.x, jQuery, Rspec, Capybara, Solr, Sidekiq, Stripe, Mailgun

Co-founder of www.collegetickr.com.

2013/09 - 2014/05

Startup company from UCSD Moxie center, built a anonymous secrets sharing website for college students. Lanched in January 2014, and have over 80000+ followers on Facebook. Technology used: Ruby on Rails, Nodejs, Memcached, Mongodb, Mysql, Git

Full Stack Web Developer for www.fishtrip.cn.

2013/03 - 2013/09

Fishtrip.cn is a travel & tourism startup company in Beijing, targeting independent travelers in China. During my 6 months stay there, I helped developing, maintaining the site from the very early stage. In october 2013 it successfully raised $2 million series A round venture capital funding from MatrixChina Partners Technology used: Ruby on Rails, Memcached, Mongodb, Solr, Mysql, Git

SDE intern in Microsoft Search Technology Center Asia

2012/07 - 2012/09

Worked in STCA’s IT support team, developed, maintained and revised the IT equipment & assets management websites for internal usage. Technology used: ASP.NET, Jquery, AJAX, Bootstrap, Sql Server

SDE intern in Siemens Corporate Technology China

2011/07 - 2011/09

Used OpenGL for kinetic algorithms analysis and Unity3D game engine to develop the robot simulation platform.

Interests

Traveling

Love independent traveling, have been to Taiwan, Japan, California in USA, Mainland China

Soccer

I am a fan of Beijing Guoan, played lot of soccer from junior high to university, I play left wing-back

Books