# Xuejuan (Jessie) Y.

> Software Development Engineer

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

- Software Developer 
- Master of Computer Science @ Rice University, graduating in Dec 2019.
- Software Developer Internship @ Expedia, summer in 2019.
- Experienced in AWS, Step Function, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc.
- Skillful in full-stack with side-projects in Desktop Application, Single Page Application, Restful API, etc.
- Proficient in Java, Python, Node.js, Angular, HTML/Javascript/CSS, MongoDB, etc.
- Solid knowledge in Algorithm, Data Structure, Database, Network, Security and Operating System.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Expedia Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Led and worked in several backend projects in the Risk & Fraud team, including latency improvement, reliability redesign, fraud pattern investigation and modeling, and mentorship.

### Graduate Student & Individual Contributor @ Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Drive Faster! (Application)
An open-source application to show real-time driving ETA in the menu bar, hands-free.
•	 Created a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) application and set up Distance Matrix API.
•	 Developed a script with Python for API integration with rate limit in consideration.
•	 A real-time driving ETA is displayed in the menu bar with an adaptive strategy on time and date. 

RiceBook (full stack) 
a Facebook-like social network on Single Page Application w/ Restful API, MongoDB, etc.
•	Designed the data model and UX with functionalities including registration, authentication, profile, newsfeed, post, etc.
•	Constructed frontend components with AngularJS and styled with CSS and Bootstrap.
•	Implemented backend with Node.js for request handling and MongoDB for data storage.
•	Implemented test infrastructure with Karma (frontend) and Mocha (backend).

Minter (website + data index w/ retrieval)
A full-stack project to get daily tweets. An offline-version Twitter to serve my summer in China.
•	Designed and developed a multi-facet Tweeter search engine with Scrapy.
•	Used Apache Solr to index ~ 3M Tweets w/ multiple metrics (theme, keyword, region, etc.). 
•	Built an AngularJS website providing advanced and responsive search functionality.

The Owl Puzzle Game (Front-end)
An online challenging but amusing puzzle game.
•	Designed the single-page application w/ navigation, sidebar and main section in styled CSS.
•	Implemented randomization of image pieces with adjustable difficult using HTML and JavaScript.

### Software Developer Internship @ Expedia Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
The project started as a proof of concept for performance improvement in the Enterprise Risk & Security team. Building from scratch, the project certifies the performance gain by migrating the current in-house service to AWS. The team made the decision towards full migration based on the result.

•	Designed and created a serverless workflow using AWS Step Function to detect transaction fraud.

•	 Implemented Util classes for JSON Parsing and HTTP GET & POST Request in the transaction process.

•	Developed AWS Lambda Functions for in-house services integration. 

•	Initiated and drove the conversation with the downstream team for API endpoint compatibility. 

•	 Implemented exception handling and failure recovery for system robustness in the state machine.

•	 Automated the workflow by using CloudWatch with dynamically scheduled tasks.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22