# Nuozhou Xu

> Senior Software Engineer II at Instacart

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nuozhou

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Instacart
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Ads Infra: Delivery Infra, Indexing and Experimentation

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Ads Infra: Budgeting and Pacing

### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
• Architected the Cash Flow Forecaster Service from scratch; designed a DynamoDB schema storing cash flow scenarios data for small business owners; implemented a clean REST API for the Android, IOS and Web clients using Spring Boot.
• Grew the product user base to around 10k WAU, and 1 million requests per day, by leading the engineering team, working closely with product managers and designers, conducting customer interviews, and iterating on the prototypes.
• Presented Cashflow Planner app on the Money 20/20 FinTech Conference and the Quickbooks Connect Conference; created stories for new features based on advices collected from industry practitioners and small business owners.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Intuit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
• Reduced the query 99 percentile time for historical cash flow summary by 91% by optimizing the SQL query in Quickbooks legacy codebase, significantly improving the user experience of the homepage dashboard.
• Improved the user engagement by 0.9% by implementing a recurring transaction feature (similar to Google Calendar), allowing the customers to create monthly/weekly/daily recurring transactions, resolving the #1 pain point with the app.
• Developed an automatic sync/refresh mechanism to merge latest Quickbooks Online data changes with user data edits in the cashflow planner to keep cashflow scenarios updated and useful.

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
• Increased the Quickbooks payments merchant automatic approval rate by 1.1% by utilizing knowledge-based and phone-based identity verification in the payments onboarding flow, reducing manual workload on the risk analysis team.
• Improved the payments signup funnel at the bank section by 0.4% by integrating banking data across Quickbooks Online to enable users to sign up for payments with existing bank accounts in one click.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
• Designed and implemented customer list pagination with React and GraphQL, allowing users to view, filter, and sort on arbitrary number of customers in the customer table, significantly improving the extensibility of the web app. 
• Consulted other engineers on the implementation of item list pagination, and developed solutions for possible issues.
• Fixed UI issues on Quickbooks Online’s transaction page, significantly reducing the number of bugs in the backlog. 
• Inspected and modified back-end and SDK codes to remove roadblocks for the team.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Rice University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Professional Development in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma
Wuhan Foreign Languages School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nuozhou-xu

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Last updated: 2026-03-22