Dawn (Xiao) Fu
Builds reliable software and AI tools, and sets up monitoring so your systems stay up and catch problems early.
Dawn can help you
- 01Building dependable back-end software for your business
- 02Setting up AI assistants that give accurate, safe answers
- 03Monitoring systems so outages and errors are caught fast
- 04Setting up testing so software updates don't break things
- 05Organizing tech projects with simple sprint planning
About Dawn
Dawn is a senior software engineer at IRALOGIX, building back-end systems for retirement and wealth management platforms. Before that, Dawn spent more than a decade at Alibaba Group and Xiaomi, leading reliability, monitoring and quality work on very large advertising systems and building a 15-person QA team from scratch. As a contractor for Troutwood, Dawn designed and built a generative AI platform using GPT, RAG and vector databases. Dawn holds an MSE from Carnegie Mellon University and worked there as a teaching assistant for courses in Agile methods and statistics.
Best fit: A growing business that relies on its own software or wants to add an AI tool, and needs it to be reliable, well-tested and closely watched for problems.
Experience
- Senior Software EngineerIRALOGIX · 2026–Present
- Teaching AssistantCarnegie Mellon University · 2025–2025
- Product Design & Software EngineerTroutwood · 2025–2026
- Staff EngineerAlibaba Group · 2019–2023
- Lead of the Product Quality Dept. / Senior Staff EngineerXiaomi Technology · 2018–2019
- Senior Software Development EngineerAlibaba Group · 2011–2018
Talk to Dawn this week.
Tell us a little about your business. We'll set up a free 15-minute intro call — if it's not a fit, we'll suggest someone who is.
