Lawrence Xu Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, CA, US

New York, NY, US

I led an engineering team to redesign the central data management system and UI for it in the platform, reducing latency for businesses with >1M entities by 10x. I also designed infrastructure to deploy multiple CMS instances to localized Cloud regions using Kubernetes and gRPC, allowing for increased scalability of user operations.As the technical lead.

New York, NY, US

As a software engineer at Yext, I worked on developing scalable full-stack applications that provide impactful business and search solutions. I built a scalable system for storing and searching on edits to entity profile data with Elasticsearch and contributed responsive UI components adhering to accessibility guidelines (WCAG) to our design system using.

San Francisco, CA, US

Summer Intern on the Home Timelines team at Twitter. I implemented improvements to the organization of tweets on the timeline through rigorous A/B testing and data-driven development of features. This involved working through the entire product feature workflow, from conception to staging and testing/experimenting, to final launch. I staged Mesos instances.

I teach students problem-solving strategies for computer science and discrete mathematics. I also work with students both one-on-one and in larger walk-in settings. I am a nationally certified tutor by the College Reading and Learning Association.

I created a Python program to generate 18 features that measure robust learning by a student while taking on online genetics tutor. This program parses through data given by the intelligent cognitive tutor and performs calculations to generate the features. I also wrote a preprocessing program that removes noise and prepares the data from the tutor for the.

BetterSpeech aims to help people communicate more effectively and improve their public speaking abilities with the added convenience of being able to do so through a website or app. Users upload a video of themselves speaking in order to receive individualized feedback on their speech patterns as well as physical movement/actions. They will also receive a.

Rutherford, New Jersey, US

I worked at the Kumon Learning Center, tutoring children ages 6-14 every day in both math and reading. I also grade their homework and tests, explaining the mistakes that they made to them. Since I have personally also completed the curriculum at the Kumon centers, I was able to offer to the children a more in-depth explanation for how to think through and.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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