Vivo Xu

Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake

About

Accomplished Tech Lead at Snowflake, building cutting-edge user experiences for data platforms. I guide complex, multi-team projects through the full lifecycle—from technical design to deployment—to significantly enhance product performance and capabilities. A key part of my role involves incubating and experimenting with novel AI concepts to shape the future of our products.

Country

United States

City

Sunnyvale

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

C++, Software Engineering, C#, JavaScript, Android, Architecture, Testing, Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Agile Testing, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Cocoa, HTML5, Bash, Cocos2d, Objective-C, Python

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Snowflake

2021-12 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Menlo Park, California, United States

- Drove Products from Concept to GA: Led the full lifecycle of key product initiatives including Native Apps (GA), Workspaces (GA), and Streamlit in Snowflake (Private Preview), originating from initial hackathon concepts. - Architected & Delivered Critical UX: Served as a technical leader and architect, spearheading the frontend for Streamlit in Snowflake, delivering the end-to-end UX for a high-priority Native Apps initiative on a critical deadline, and owning core data visualizations for Workspaces

Committer, Apache Helix

The Apache Software Foundation

2022-12 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

https://helix.apache.org/

Author, Apache Helix UI

The Apache Software Foundation

2017-8 - Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

Aka. Helix Front: https://github.com/apache/helix/tree/master/helix-front

Sr. Software Engineer

2015-4 - 2021-11 · 6 yrs 8 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

* Frontend Tech Lead of Learning Enterprise Growth team * Fullstack Engineer for DaaS of LinkedIn Data Infrastructure (Nuage)

Sr. Software Engineer

Duck Duck Moose (subsidiary of Khan Academy)

2013-5 - 2015-4 · 2 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

Help redefine the way for children to learn and interact with media. Develop cross-platform educational mobile apps and games.

Founder

Fancyber

2012-1 - 2015-4 · 3 yrs 4 mos

San Jose

Develop Web, iOS universal utility and game applications.

Staff Software Engineer

Baidu, Inc.

2007-1 - 2012-7 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Beijing

Architect of Baidu Automation Foundation team. Build Engineering Productivity platforms. Research and design automation solutions for quality assurance platforms and systems.

Education

Jilin University

Computer Software Engineering

2003 - 2007 · 4 yrs

Meritorious Winner of ACM/ICPC Trail, 2006 Opening Keynote on 1st Campus Web Conference, 2006 Science & Technology Innovation Scholarship, 2005 Founder of the algorithm competition and laboratory for undergraduates of College, 2005 Science & Technology Innovation Fund Awards, 2004