Summary
Alex Xu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building product and infrastructure at fast-growing startups and design-focused platforms. After progressing from internships at Databricks, Nextdoor, and drive.ai to full-time engineering at Figma, he now develops at Clay in New York, blending front-end collaboration features with backend reliability. He has a track record of shipping end-to-end systems—from the monolithic LA Hacks application he built to production collaboration tooling at Figma—and brings practical experience in cloud infrastructure and large-scale product teams. Comfortable across the stack, Alex pairs product-minded engineering with a history of student leadership roles that emphasize shipping under tight timelines. Based in NYC and reachable at xualexander1@gmail.com, he combines a UCLA CS foundation with hands-on startup execution and a knack for turning event-grade systems into maintainable products.
10 years of coding experience