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Drew Xiu

Cover Letter

I am writing to express my interest in the Tech Lead role within your growth department. With over a decade of experience in software development, including significant roles in e-commerce and fast-paced growth environments, I believe I bring the right blend of technical expertise, leadership experience, and innovative thinking to help drive the platform’s success.

Here's a list of highlights of my experience and skills that I believe are relevant to the role:

  • Battle-Tested Fullstack Engineer with multiple user-facing products.
  • Solid 0 to 1 experience across the every development aspect: repo setup, unit testing, CI/CD & Bots, code review, etc.
  • Experience in Payment industry (critical for e-commerce) with high demand of growth (SEO, data analytics, etc.)
  • Experience in well-known e-commerce company.
  • Experience in hiring/coaching junior engineers.

Thanks for considering my application.

Please visit Heres, Here and Here for live demos and source code if interested.

Overview

  • Over 10 years of programming experience across diverse technical stacks.
  • Strong aptitude for learning and a commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Effective team player and communicator, consistently serving as a key developer within teams.
  • Passionate about technology, efficiency, and quality.
  • Experienced full-stack web developer
  • Seeking opportunities to refine existing skills and acquire new ones.

Experiences

eBay CCoE, Data Analytics Platform (2020-3 ~ 2024-6)

  • Led the development of a next-gen Data Analytics Platform (DAP) with rich user interactions, including an IDE and Graph Editor. Successfully launched the product in 2022, migrated 3,000+ users and 4,000+ critical data pipelines.
  • Primary focus on building a comprehensive ETL product, with contributions to metadata management, pipeline operations, and data governance.
  • Full-stack development around enterprise applications and IaaS/SaaS solutions tailored for data teams. Such as: In-App Notification System, Muilt-SQL execution plan optimizer, in-house Workflow Engine, domain GraphQL service.
  • Led the initiative and deliver the first in-house UI Component library for the team.

Tech Stack: React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, Kotlin/Scala, Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka

Airwallex (2019-1 ~ 2020-3)

Experiencing various changes in a relatively short time at a fast growing Start-up. From a individual contributor - following through one project from E2E - to the leader of 1-2 junior engineers in collaboration. Built the company's first Wechat Miniprogram (a hybrid app framework running on WeChat).

Projects I contributed to:

Tech Stack: React, GraphQL, Typescript, SSR(Nextjs), Kotlin, SEO

General Electric (2017-4 ~ 2018-12)

  • Be front-end specialist in Asset Management product team. Leading technical discussion and decision in the team.
  • Data visualization development, such as reports, dashboards. With UX team, implement modern, attractive final UI or reusable components.
  • Constantly evolve the project: migrate features from traditional SSR pages to a SPA/micro service architecture; Combine scattered repos, unify technical stack to create a scalable front-end project and improve productivity. Integrate & customize 3rd party components like BI tools.
  • Be an early adopter of new techs in the team, learn with actions and spread the result to the other team members.
  • Interviewing front-end engineer for both Shanghai/Beijing team.
  • Tech stack: typescript/react + react-*/antd/echarts

Autodesk China R&D - Cloud Platform (2014-8 ~ 2017-4)

  • Working on a RESTful API for Autodesk Revit/Fusion to manage/render materials. Based on asp.net. Built a browser based admin console, using Vuejs.

  • Full stack developer of https://apps.autodesk.com. AppStore is a platform built for 3rd party developers or firms to share/sell their plugins. Based on asp.net, with jQuery and angular. Back-end is written in Scala/Play with MySQL. I’m the sole developer of back-end REST api and involved in most front-enddevelopment.

SAP Labs China - Globalization Service (2012 ~ 2014)

  • Developer of ERP Financial modules and their globalized version. Experienced ABAPer and lead team to deliver 3 Fiori(UI5) Apps. ABAP is SAP’s own programming language and Fiori(UI5) is an enterprise Html5 framework.

Autodesk China R&D - Localization Testing (2010~2012, Internship)

  • Conduct automation testing for Autodesk hero products, develop necessary tools, many of them are using Python. Best Intern Award of 2011.

Skills

Programming Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala, C#, Python, Java
Front-end: React, Vue.js, AngularJS
Back-end: Node.js/Nestjs, Scala/Play, ASP.NET
Cloud: AWS, Alibaba Cloud
Other: Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, CI/CD

Worth-Sayings

Education

  • 2005 ~ 2009, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Aerodynamic Engineering
  • 2009 ~ 2012, Fudan University, Aerodynamic Engineering
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