Xah Lee
Summary
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SeniorXah Lee is a veteran full‑stack web developer and autodidact with 13+ years building and maintaining a prolific technical website (xahlee.info) that attracts thousands of daily visitors and comprises ~5,000 pages and dozens of published tools. Rooted in deep backend and Unix sysadmin expertise, he writes tens of thousands of lines in languages including JavaScript, Perl, Python, PHP, and Emacs Lisp, and prefers implementing systems from first principles rather than relying on frameworks. A respected open-source contributor in Emacs and Lisp communities, his work has been cited in academic papers, a US patent, and by industry resources such as Microsoft TypeScript. He seeks small, startup‑style engineering teams where his ability to design, code, and operate complete systems—plus a background that includes teaching graduate math students and invited academic talks—adds both practical and intellectual rigor.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
17,065reputation
1.3mreached
10answers
39questions
Github Skills (32)
minor-mode10
emacs-package10
emacs10
find-replace10
rss9
wolfram-language9
command-line-tool9
cli8
major-mode8
command-line8
grep8
regex8
ripgrep8
region7
rust7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xahlee/xah-wolfram-mode
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
emacs mode for Wolfram Language
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 10 months
emacswolfram-language
xahlee/xah-html-mode.el
Jan 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:454 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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