# Linda Xie

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/linda

Senior software engineer with 7+ years building scalable backend services and data driven platforms. Experienced in designing REST APIs, distributed systems on AWS, and improving reliability and observability in production environments. Known for driving cross team delivery and raising engineering quality.

Linda Xie
lindaxie.art@gmail.com
github.com/LilyEssence

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ethisphere
Jan 2023 – Present
• Designed and drove backend services for a microservices based culture assessment platform using TypeScript, AWS ECS on EC2, and DynamoDB. Built REST APIs for scoring, statistical analysis, and multi dimensional segmentation supporting surveys with up to 100k recipients per engagement.
• Architected a distributed rate limiting system (Lambda plus client library with SQS buffering) that processed 100k external API calls with zero dropped requests and introduced first time visibility into third party error rates via SNS alerting.
• As Senior Engineer, led cross product SSO integration using custom JWT, authored epics and work breakdowns across teams, refactored legacy Laravel services to improve report generation and test coverage, and mentored engineers on testing and delivery practices

### Software Engineer II @ Beacons
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Designed ephemeral QA environments for pull requests enabling automated pre deployment validation 
across frontend and backend services
• Improved CI CD reliability using GitLab merge trains and release tagging, reducing deployment risk and 
manual intervention
• Improved reliability of Python data ingestion pipelines by strengthening error handling and production 
monitoring with Sentry
• Enhanced error handling and monitoring in Python social media scrapers using Sentry

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, WA
•	Built and maintained automation test infrastructure for Office Group's Mac and iOS products using Python, Azure DevOps pipelines, and bash scripts.
•	Spearheaded developer excellence initiatives through pair programming and code review practices
•	Drove system performance improvements through legacy code refactoring and telemetry analysis
•	Created data visualization solutions using PowerBI for system performance metrics

### Automation Infrastructure Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle
assisted development tools for all of Office for Mac developers
refactored python, C, Objective C, and bash legacy code to produce granular telemetry data points
created PowerBI reports to discover most computationally intensive tasks of the system
refocused with team to refactor and improve code execution duration

### Development Intern @ Praecipio Consulting
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin
DocuSign x Atlassian JIRA Add-on integration development: “DocuSign for JIRA”
Full stack: coded in Java, worked with Velocity Macros and Soy Templates
Worked in six-man team with Agile methodology and git-flow version control
Earned title of 'Dragon Slayer' for slaying the Atlassian Integration Quest to install and set-up JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye, and Crucible on a remote server.

### Velocity Analysis Intern @ TGS
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Analyzed trends in seismic wave data to procure clearer image of underground formations using TGS PRIMA® and Linux environment
Gave feedback to R&D on hotkeys and mouse efficiency


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Computer Engineering (Semester Study Abroad) in Computer Software Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### High School Diploma in STEM and Fine Art
Seven Lakes High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lindaxieart
- Website: http://lilyessence.github.io

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Source: https://flows.cv/linda
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/linda/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22