Xin Xiang

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in distributed systems and cloud computing.
  • Led the development of scalable caching solutions.
  • Pioneered AWS ElastiCache for automated cloud caching.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused engineer with expertise in distributed systems and cloud computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingWeb Services

Other Skills

JavaSpringHibernateSOAKafkaC++AWSSpring FrameworkMySQLObject Oriented DesignWSDLSOAPXMLSQLmemca

About

distributed system, storage and caching, performance and test automation, real time data

Experience

20 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Openai

Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Confluent

2 roles

Software Engineer

May 2020Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Building the backend of Stream Designer, a product allowing users to easily build efficient and comprehensive data pipelines in Confluent Cloud, with an intuitive low/no code interface and iterative workflow. Honored to be one of the founding team members participating with the design, development and launch of the production since the beginning.
  • Building Confluent Connect framework, a rich pre-built generic platform of Kafka Connectors, to allow users to rapidly and reliably move data streams across various systems.
JavaSpringHibernateWeb ServicesSOADistributed Systems+1

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leading developer productivity team at Confluent building developer tooling, CI/CD system and workflow, release pipeline, as well as working with 3rd party vendor of developer products on integration and maintenance.
  • Business around the globe has started realizing the potential of real time data and Confluent is leading the trend with its streaming platform. Join us if you are interested in this growing domain and want to help building a reliable and efficient real-time data solution at massive scale.

Uber

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2015Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Leading Reliability Platform team building the load and integration testing platform for Uber's backend services, as well as the testing in production solution for at-scale trips simulation.

Software Engineer

Oct 2014Jul 2015 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Joined Scalability team working on monolithic API framework which handles all traffic related to user and trip management.

Twitter

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2012Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Tech lead at cache team, building scalable cache product;
  • Committer of finagle-memcached library (http://twitter.github.com/finagle);
C++Distributed Systems

Amazon.com

2 roles

Software Engineer, AWS

May 2010Feb 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Founding member of AWS ElastiCache, a highly available distributed cache within Amazon Web Services family providing automated provisioning and scaling in-memory cache in the cloud. http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
AWSDistributed SystemsCloud Computing

Software Engineer

Nov 2007May 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Developing and maintaining entire stack from front-end UI for B2B shopping and account management, to back-end web services interacting with many Amazon core services;
  • Involved in the design and development of a large scale automated ordering system to process B2B customer’s electronic orders;
  • Java, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Web Services, WSDL, SOAP, cXML
  • Linux, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse

Esri

Software Product Engineer Intern

May 2007Aug 2007 · 3 mos

  • ArcGIS Server based Web ADF development;
  • A JSF framework to enable the dynamic integration of multiple types of GIS resource, and the functionality to customize users specific GIS resource data format like XML, GML, Geo RSS and even plain text.
JavaHibernateSpring FrameworkWeb ServicesMySQL

Indiana university

Reseach Assistant

Jan 2006May 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Relational DB, XML DB, Multi-Thread, MySQL, Berkeley DB XML, Netezza NPS;
  • C/C++, Pthread, XQuery, Perl

Education

Indiana University Bloomington

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Peking University

B.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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