Alex Xu

Author of 4 Bestselling Books | Co-Founder of ByteByteGo

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. Alex Xu is a software engineer and author. His book System Design Interview - An Insider’s Guide is one of Amazon's best-selling books in the “Distributed Systems & Computing” category. As of December 2020, his book is being translated into 7 different languages (Traditional Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Korean). -------------- Newsletter: https://blog.bytebytego.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexxubyte YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ByteByteGo

Experience

  • Author & Co-Founder at ByteByteGo
    Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

    Co-authored 4 books: - System Design Interview - Volume 1 - System Design Interview - Volume 2 - Coding Interview Patterns - Machine Learning System Design Interview - Write weekly ByteByteGo newsletter on system design topics to 1,000,000+ subscribers. - Grow the ByteByteGo YouTube channel to 1,000,000+ subscribers.

  • Software Engineer at Twitter
    Jan 2014 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Software Engineer at Apple
    Nov 2013 - Jan 2014 · 3 mos

  • Software Engineer at Zynga
    Sep 2010 - Nov 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Software Developer at Oracle
    May 2010 - Oct 2010 · 6 mos