Clarissa Xu is a Software Engineer at Stripe, specializing in the Messaging Team since August 2022. Prior experience includes a Software Engineer Intern role at Bubble, where various features for the Bubble programming language were implemented, and an internship at Facebook, contributing to improvements in misinformation recall and developing machine learning classifiers. Clarissa's background also features internships at Instagram, where support for chat features was built, Uber, focusing on real-time analysis and system detection, and as a Research Assistant at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, contributing to studies on technology and microaggressions. Teaching Assistant roles at Carnegie Mellon University involved guiding students in Distributed Systems and Math Foundations of Computer Science. Clarissa holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, completed in May 2022.