# Xindi Xu

> Software Engineer @ Instabase

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xindixu

Welcome / 欢迎 / ようこそ! I enjoy designing and implementing full-stack features with complex functionalities. I'm passionate about improving user experience and understanding technologies on a deeper level.

Fun fact: I built three life-size Raptor costumes for the theater show, Enron Raptors, during my Sophomore year in college. 

If you want to know more about me (and my cat, Dr. Casper Meowspy, and perhaps the Raptors), please go to my personal website at xindixu.space.

Bonus fun fact about my name: a group of fictional races in the Star Trek universe is also called "Xindi", but the pronunciation is different! My name is pronounced as "Shin-D", or close to "Cindy".

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Instabase
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Instabase
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
· TA for graduate-level CS course, Distributed Systems Fundamentals, in Fall 2022, covers topics including distributed computing, time and coordination, agreement problems, and model-checking
· Held weekly office hours to discuss design choices and guide students toward performant solutions for assignments
· Prepared and presented tutorials on Golang and distributed system debugging tips and assignment overviews and plans of attack
· Monitored discussion board to answer students' questions within 24 hrs
· Created automation scripts to detect cheating using Gradescope code similarity checker
· Graded exams and helped organize course logistics, such as maintaining the course websites,  updating assignment template code, and setting up students' repos on Github

### Software Engineer Intern @ Instabase
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
· Planned, scoped, and designed Admin Diagnostics App to help site admins monitor and troubleshoot on-premise deployment
· Built the entire Admin Diagnostics App from scratch and shipped the beta version in 10 weeks with React and Python Flask
· Collaborated with designers and engineers to design and craft robust generic components for the company’s design system, Pollen
· Researched and gradually migrated ESlint and TSlint config to improve the developer experience and code quality
· Won 1st place out of 40 teams in hackathon by adding real-time collaboration enabling 100 users to annotate the same document

### Software Engineer @ Pingboard
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
· Delivered intricate and performant full-stack features with complex visual and interaction requirements for Employee Networking web app with React, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, with thorough tests and documentation
· Prototyped features to provide estimates on risks and effort, then shipped polished versions–including syncing user-generated content with Slack, drag-n-drop sortable lists, and real-time multi-user collaborative editor with conflict resolutions
· Improved accessibility by designing applicable keyboard navigations and crafting UI animations for a native-like experience
· Boosted load speed by 10% via migrating legacy code incrementally, building 10+ single-page apps with best-fit design patterns

### Software Engineer Intern @ Pingboard
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
· Built accessible universal components used by 500,000+ active users, including input autocompletion, emoji picker, date-time picker
· Standardized add-on apps config page, created multiple frontend templates based on data models, saved hours of manual work
· Constructed robust APIs and search services to filter recruiting data and calendar events, boosted feature usage by 80%
· Redesigned employee management page, enabled searching, sorting, and bulk editing with state-action-reducer pattern

### Lead Frontend Software Engineer Intern @ ProMazo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
· Led a front-end team of 4 to implement designs for Job Application Tracking web app with React, Redux, AWS, and GraphQL
· Reengineered dev process, established frontend and testing infra, resulting in 70% reduction on fatal crashes in production
· Mentored 2 interns on teamwork and software development, assigned tasks based on team’s priority and skillsets
· Devised a Node.js scaffolding tool for React, Redux, and Storybook per user input to reduce development time by 90%

### Front-end Web Developer Co-op @ Nokia
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas, United States
· Improved UX with the design-thinking methodology for Nokia Demo System and promoted UX/UI in Digital Experience business unit
· Built customer feedback & rating system with Vue.js, Django, PostgreSQL; collected 100+ reviews inspiring product improvements
· Redesigned the Nokia Demo Center website based on interview feedback, resulting in 400% increase in visits per month

### Digital Marketing Intern @ Daikin North America
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Waller, Texas, United States


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Columbia University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Undergraduate Certificate in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Advertising
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xindi-xu
- Website: https://xindixu.space
- GitHub: https://github.com/xindixu

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Last updated: 2026-03-29