Tony Xie

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(he/him)

Senior Software Engineer. Not currently seeking a role.

SF Bay Area, CA

Contact

tony@tonyxie.co | LinkedIn | GitHub

Additional Info

• US Citizen
• No Disabilities
• Not a Veteran
• Full Legal Name is Tianyi Xie, but Tony is strongly preferred

Skills

• Backend:
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • SQL
• Frontend:
  • JavaScript (ES6)
  • Backbone
  • React
  • SCSS
• Localization (l10n)
• Internationalization (i18n)
• Google Cloud Platform:
  • Monitoring Logs
  • AppEngine
  • BigQuery
  • Compute Engine
  • Cloud Storage
• Spoken Languages:
  • English (primary)
  • Japanese (N1 equivalent)
  • Mandarin Chinese (Heritage)
  • French (Elementary)

Work Experience

Affirm, San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer - June 2022 - present

• Senior Software Engineer on the Merchant Core team.

Humble Bundle, San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer - Associate, I, II - April 2017 - April 2022

• Built code using the full stack of the Python/App Engine/Backbone/Marionette.js codebase from backend to frontend
• Conducted technical interviews for engineering candidates, with my work being used as the technical interview prompt
• Wrote a technical design document for each project (1-2 per quarter), incorporating stakeholder feedback and signoffs
• Conducted code reviews for other engineers, and engaged in pair programming with junior and senior engineers
• Continued to support each project post-launch as API updates and customer issues came up over time
• Triaged on-call firefighting requests on a quarterly rotation, fixing bugs with unfamiliar parts of the codebase
• Integrated and took ownership of multiple end-to-end payment processor integrations, including Stripe, Klarna, Alipay
  • Single handedly took Klarna integration from planning process to shipped and live within 3 business days, resulting in up to a 105% increase in checkout cart value from customers
  • Collaborated with Stripe engineers to research and implement a fraud prevention flow for Alipay
• Revamped internal tools internationalization UI to increase business user efficiency by 500%
• Collaborated with external partners at Lokalise to ensure localization was being properly delivered in EFIGS, Chinese, and Russian, expanding our userbase more than tenfold
• Implemented site redesigns, collaborating and communicating with stakeholders on product and design each step
  • Redesigns worked on include Humble Bundle sitewide navigation, marketing/landing pages for various promotions including Humble Choice (flagship subscription service), payment processor menus sitewide, and many more
  • Maintained contact with internal and external stakeholders, including product, design, and QA
• Reorganized sitewide navigation on backend, allowing business side users to customize the elements and dropdowns in sitewide navigation via an internal UI
• Restructured backend and frontend data for Humble Choice redesign - changed flagship subscription service that previously allowed users to choose 9 of 12 available items to unconditionally give the user all included items, removing the “choosing” step. The launch of this product increased userbase size by 5% month on month.
• Implemented user side OAuth integration with external partner Epic Games, allowing users to claim purchased content using an external account

Projects and Contributions

• Project Clippi (2021) - Aided in JavaScript testing and debugging for an Electron data processing application.
• IRC Theme for Facebook Messenger (2019) - Provided a SCSS fix for unreadable text in Facebook Messenger.
• Mallard (2017) - A voice controlled chat bot built with Node, discord.js, and Google Cloud.
• Kitsu.io (2016) - Open Source contribution to early stage startup, Kitsu.io, to help display business user end data.

Education

New York University - BA Linguistics, Computer Science, Web Development