Haochen Xu

Hello World

I'm Haochen

I build full-stack products with TypeScript, moving between product ideas, backend systems, data models, and frontend interfaces.

I'm especially interested in async architecture on the backend, and lately I've also been exploring AI agents and agent memory systems. I have a soft spot for UI that feels lively, clear, and easy to use.

Experience

De Stijl Technology Network

Dec 2025 - present

Full-stack Engineer (contract). 80% backend, 20% frontend. Tech stack: AWS, DynamoDB, NodeJS, React Native.

Bond Software

Apr 2025 - Dec 2025

Full-stack Software Engineer (contract) at an Australia-based software agency. Led frontend of a video-sharing platform from scratch, built the video upload pipeline, real-time chat via Azure Communication Services, commenting, and notifications. Owned the frontend roadmap and ran weekly stakeholder demos.

Eventx

Sep 2022 - Feb 2024

Full-stack Software Engineer at Eventx.io, a Hong Kong SASS company. Tech stack: TypeScript, PostgresDB, NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeORM.

EPAM

May 2021 - Sep 2022

Senior Software Engineer at EPAM, a US publicly traded company consulting for Fortune 1000. Tech stack: ReactJS, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL.

EPAM

Nov 2019 - Apr 2021

Software Engineer at EPAM, a US publicly traded company consulting for Fortune 1000. Tech stack: ReactJS, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL.

Frontend Engineer · startup

2018 - 2019

Got hired by a local startup as a frontend engineer. Tech stack: VueJS, NuxtJS.

Learning to code full-time

2017 - 2018

Decided to pursue programming as a career by learning full-time!

Marketing · consumer tech

2014 - 2017

Worked in marketing for a consumer tech company. I was quite interested in consumer electronics at that time. Meanwhile learning to code as a hobby.

College

2008 - 2012

Graduated with a college degree, but didn't figure out what I want to do. I guess traditional education and me failed each other.

Recent Writing

Latest notes and experiments

Browse archive
Agent 8 min read

几个 Claude Agent SDK 回合为什么会用完 5-hour limit

从一个 Gmail Bridge 触发的 Claude Code SDK session 出发,拆解为什么表面只有几轮对话,底层却产生了 44 次 model calls、5.84M cumulative usage tokens,以及 prompt caching、tool-use round trips 和 Claude Code harness 在里面分别做了什么。

AgentClaude CodeClaude Agent SDK
Thoughts 2 min read

🧠 What Should LLM-Facing Developers Know?

If building for the internet was the mainstream in the past 20 years, building for LLMs might be the future. Just like how web developers don't need to know the low-le...

Thoughts