# Xiaofan Wu

> Software Engineer at Meta

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ WhatsApp Inc.
Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park, California

### Software Engineer Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
 Worked on an event scheduling system with Espresso, Play, & RESTLI API
 Implemented request contact info on messaging Android app.
 Migrated from SBT to Gradle (build tool change): decreased the build time by 2 times. Migrated and implemented logics for LinkedIn introduction request logics, member blocking, length check, and customer support tool validation.
 Planned team bonding activities including hiking, board game nights, and team lunches.

### Software Developer @ Where's Wellesley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | n/a
Working on developing an app with geo-location functionality, user-generated push notifications, personal profile functionality, and search filters. Using Ionic Framework in AngularJS. App is on both Android and IOS market (Where Is Wellesley).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Instagram
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Android Developer on Ads Creation & Management Team
 Native Android Developer. Collaborated with feed, story, and profile teams on multiple projects.
 Implemented preview of ads to small businesses on Instagram Feed & increased promotion by 4%.
 Worked to bridge React Native and Native Android view, implemented Native Android Instagram feed in React Native environment & collaborated with React Native team to integrate Facebook React Native component to Instagram.

### UROP @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | CAMBRIDGE, MA
Analyze social media & call detail record data in Andorra, a small country in Europe. Visualize collected data with D3
library to predict future travel plans and determine factors affecting tourist perceptions during visits.

### Software Engineer Intern @ GE Digital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | GE Digital, Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA
Front-end web developer on EdgeManager Team
 Wrote front-end interface component with Polymer, CSS, HTML, & Node.js for EdgeManager home page.
 Wrote functional unit tests with Jasmine and Sinon.
 Geo-data visualization using leafLet & Polymer component with D3.js

### Research Assistant @ Stanford Canary Cancer Research Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Stanford
Worked as a research assistant at Stanford Canary Cancer Research Center with Dr. Edwin Chang that focuses on Glioma cancer cell line. 

Daily activities included cell passaging, running Western Blot, and analyzing bioluminescence images(BLI). 

I collaborated with three other interns to work on categorizing migration pattern of Glioblastoma and testing dose-dependent drugs such as isoliquiritigenin and liquiritigenin on Glioma cell lines (especially GBM2, GBM39,LN229 cell lines).

### Assistant in data analysis @ Professor Jeremy Wilmer
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Summer of 2015 Larger survey data analysis for Wellesley Psychology Professor using tableau. Analyzed data from online survey and represented data in various graph using Tableau.

### Caddie @ The Olympic Club
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
met many different middle class adult in various career field. Many gave me advices about choosing a career/college. 

Was friendly and positive with every golfer.

### Outreach Assistant @ San Francisco Department of Election
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
That summer I wanted to learn about politician’s daily duties and how to ran a campaign, so I interned at the Department of election. Everyday tasks included greeting new citizens, answering phone calls, and filing.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
Wellesley College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### City College of San Francisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### High school diploma
Lowell High School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/xiaofan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xiaofan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20