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Alvin Xu

I build AI systems, developer tools, and software for everyday use.

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Alvin Xu

Vancouver, BC · Remote in Canada

Software engineer designing and building AI tools and web applications.

Open to product engineering and founding-team roles.

Emailxxalvin@alumni.usc.eduGitHubLinkedIn

Selected work

Three projects you can use.

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  1. Web application

    Investment Platform

    Explore real market history, compare a stock with SPY, and manage a paper portfolio.

    TypeScript · Angular · Node.js · MongoDB

  2. Language tooling

    MiniML Language Interpreter

    Evaluate a functional program and inspect its inferred type in a browser playground.

    OCaml · Type inference · Browser playground

  3. Systems programming

    Mini File System

    Write a file, inspect its disk blocks, then read it back after remounting the same virtual disk.

    C · WebAssembly · Storage

More in the project archiveNLP & machine learning Robotics

Education

  1. University of Southern California

    M.S. in Computer Science

  2. McGill University

    B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science