# Oliver Xia

> Product & Engineering Leader

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oliverxia

Engineer turned technical leader focused on building Chime’s Enrollment and KYC (Know Your Customer) Risk platform.

## Work Experience
### Engineering Manager @ Chime
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Enrollment & KYC  - Risk

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chime
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improving our Chime members' disputes experience.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Engineer 1 at Amazon Music for Podcast. Developed the client stack for Android Podcast playback.

### Software Engineer @ Lime
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Backend development using Ruby on Rails.

### Software Engineer II @ Akamai Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Backend development to upgrade our core services to support HTTP/2.0.

Implemented support for TLS Handshake, client side certificate authentication, Server Name Indication (SNI). Created an HTTP/2.0 servlet endpoint that runs on Wildfly to test our HTTP/2.0 upgrade code and for future jUnit testing purposes.

Upgraded our core services to Java 8 as well as fixed all relevant broken test cases. (E.g. Due to Java 8's new implementation of Hashtables)

### Software Engineer @ SOASTA, Inc. (Acquired By Akamai)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
- Developing an XCUITest to work on Amazon Device Farm to automate our build testing environment.
- Integrating MPulse into TouchTest, both of which used to be standalone products of SOASTA.
- Developing and improving automated touch testing of the UI for applications on Android and iOS devices.
- Maintaining application analytics platform to monitor CPU, network, and battery usages when testing an application on a given device.
- Reengineered the old HttpClient interface that was used to send out data packets to instead use HTTPClientConnections for ease of monitoring and reporting network data traffic.
- Building Android applications using Gradle.
- Solved library building & dependency issues that blocked our support for iOS 10.
- Maintaining Jenkins builds for automated building and testing of proprietary software.
- Fixing bugs that come in from customers using our product from around the world.
- Onboarding newcomers to familiarize them with the codebase and other processes.

### Teacher Assistant @ California Polytechnic State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Luis Obispo, California Area
Teacher's assistant for a software engineering course. Duties include meeting with groups and overseeing their project along with answering questions they may have about the software they're creating.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bizo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Using the Spray toolkit and coding in Scala, I converted a Java servlet filter into a Spray directive. Prior to this experience, I've never coded in Scala nor used Spray. Learned by doing!

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bizo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developed a webpage from scratch for the marketing team's "Funnel Marketing" campaign. Iterated through many design and functionality changes before reaching the final version. Wrote directives and cohered to modular design for ease of testing each directive's functionality. As a side project, also ported a script from Python into Ruby syntax. Started out not knowing Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ruby, and Python but learned the languages as I go with some assistance from a fellow software engineer.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oliver-xia-7323a754
- Website: https://github.com/OliverXia

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Last updated: 2026-04-05