Xavier Kelly - Software Engineer, GitHub

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Work Background

GitHubSoftware Engineer

Jun. 2020RemoteWorking as a full-stack engineer on the Billing platform that supports our services at GitHub. - Shipped a manual payment solution ahead of new federal mandates by the Reserve Bank of India that gave back ~ $1m in revenue to GitHub from affected customers. - Implemented many of our user facing metered billing pages for products and subsequent APIs as we transitioned to our new Billing Platform (vNext) which is a service built in Go with a backend in CosmosDB. - Shipped critical customer impacting work for our Copilot Product general audience launch. Developed integral solutions for our Subscription API. https://github.com/features/copilot/ - Maintenance and development of our new Billing API and Metered Usage Service Architecture. - Day to day work that improves the teams and users that rely on our billing system and products. - Held Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging interviews for general GitHub hiring.

The HBCU PromiseHBCU Promise Scholar Graduate

May. 2020

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern

May. 2019 - Aug. 2019San Francisco, California · On-siteApp Center Platform -I worked as a member of the CoreUX team for the App Center platform. Through my internship I was successfully able to ship the platform's first working dark-mode theme which was a popular request for users at the time.

Lockheed MartinSoftware Development Intern

May. 2018 - Aug. 2018Herndon, Virginia

Virginia State UniversitySoftware Engineer Internship

Oct. 2017 - May. 2019Worked under a professor and Microsoft engineers with an established student squad on a project that involves the Skype Bot framework. This project spanned two semesters long. Created the 'FriendBot' which gives Skype users an additional level of networking. It allows users to find each other based on similar information shared with the bot like nationality, education, and occupation. The bot is currently deployed on Azure.

Virginia State UniversityResearch Intern

May. 2017 - Jun. 2017Richmond, Virginia AreaI served as a research intern approved by the Virginia State University Undergraduate Research Foundation working in our engineering building directed under Dr. Zhenhua Wu. The purpose of my internship was to enable MTConnect on our manufacturing machine the Haas Lathe. MTConnect consists of an adapter and an agent programmed in C# and C++ respectively. My job was to utilize provided MTConnect adapter framework and use C# to enable it on the Haas. MTConnect allows for standardization of machine data using XML and allows for easier data analysis.