Philip Xia

Co-Founder

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States7 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Experienced in backend development and cloud computing.
  • Proven track record in software engineering at Tesla and Meta.
  • Strong leadership skills demonstrated through founding initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Software Engineer with experience in Automotive and Cloud Computing industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringCloud EngineeringData Analysis

Other Skills

PHPHACKThriftGolangRubyAWS SageMakerBERTCloud ComputingGRPCMongoDBC++QtLinuxPower BISQL

About

Hey! I am currently a Master's student at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Electrical Engineering. I was working at Tesla as a Software Engineer before I joined UPenn. I did my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and had a minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Experience

7 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Antler

Founder in Residence

Oct 2023Nov 2023 · 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

Stealth startup

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Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Meta

Production Engineer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • Client Platform Engineering: Package Infra Team
  • Responsible for modernizing the Windows package distribution infrastructure that is used by every Meta Software Engineer.
  • Implemented five backend APIs using HACK/PHP with Thrift, a proxy using Golang, and a config management tool using Ruby.
PHPBackend Development

The wharton school

Research Associate

Oct 2021May 2022 · 7 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS): Language Model ML on Cloud Computing
  • Responsible for implementing the Financial NLP / ML model for Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) in cloud services.
  • Trained and validated the BERT model for finance using AWS SageMaker with data stored in AWS S3 bucket.

Tesla

Software Engineer

Jul 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · 中国 上海

  • R&D - INFOTAINMENT / UI Team
  • Coded for the Backend using Golang, GRPC, and MongoDB. Developed Car PC UI (client-side) using C++ with Qt in Linux
  • Improved and rewrote music services for the Chinese market, reduced 80% of customer complaints on music service.
  • Launched a new media source Online Radio to replace the radio tuner. Worked on Tesla Mic karaoke feature.
  • Created Tesla's in-car Tutorial service for China, which educated around 200,000 Chinese users through the service.

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2019Jul 2020 · 10 mos · Shanghai City, China

  • Cloud + AI Group: Dynamics 365 Team
  • Maintain and improve the performance monitoring tool of Dynamics 365 Tax Engine, reduce its runtime consumption by 10%
  • Composed monthly business insight report for APIs’ usage via Power BI, SQL, and Kusto with data from databases in Azure
  • Created Unit Test in ASP.NET for the core service Generic Tax Engine of Dynamics 365 on Azure automation platform
  • Help redesign Dynamics Tax Services CI pipeline in Azure DevOps to simplify the procedure of automated builds and tests

Shanghai stock exchange

Data Analyst Intern

Jul 2019Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Shanghai City, China

  • 数据分析师实习生 - 上海证券交易所信息公司
  • Unify the API and data structure shared between services.
  • Work on an algorithm in Python to identify crawlers.

The hack team

Chief Information Officer

Apr 2018Dec 2018 · 8 mos · Shanghai, China

  • Co-directed the promotion and execution of THE Hack 2018.
  • The hack is the largest hackathon in China by 2018: 500+ hackers; 2,000+ applicants from 8 countries.
  • Consisted of two hackathons: hackShanghai for experienced hackers, and hack.init() for beginners.

Ecspace co., ltd

2 roles

研究员实习生

Oct 2017Mar 2018 · 5 mos

  • · 研究基于小波变换的图像处理
  • · 研究手写公式的OCR识别
  • · 对中文自然语言处理中的词性问题进行研究

软件工程师实习生

Apr 2017Sep 2017 · 5 mos

  • · 构建WinForms和WPF框架的图形化数学方程及表达式编辑器,应用内部基于Presentation MathML
  • · 编写用于求解Presentation MathML格式的数学表达式或方程的Python库,其中用了NumPy和SciPy来实现如计算微积分等的高级功能
  • · 修复了公司主产品现有的性能瓶颈,使其响应速度比以前快20%

Shanghaitech university

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2017Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Shanghai, China

  • Teaching Assistant in:
  • 2017 Fall: SI100C (Introduction to Computer Science),
  • 2018 Spring: SI100EP (Introduction to Electrical Engineering Practice)
  • 2018 Fall: CS100 (Computer Programming)
  • 2019 Spring: SI100B (Introduction to Information Science and Technology)

Geek pie association

President

Sep 2017Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Shanghai, China

  • Geek Pie became the largest and most popular student association at ShanghaiTech University, and received Outstanding Student Association award for both 2018 and 2019. Nearly half (148/350) of all the freshmen in ShanghaiTech University joined us in September 2018.
  • Held 60+ technical seminars, 7 workshops and 5+ school competitions, developed 3 new campus online services.
  • Organized 100+ students in 30+ team to attend various competitions outside the campus, received 30+ prize.
  • Maintained cooperation with companies and other universities’ student associations, invited 10+ distinguished guest from industry to give speeches to students in ShanghaiTech University.

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Science in Engineering — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Sep 2021May 2023

ShanghaiTech University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

ShanghaiTech University

Bachelor's degree — Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Minor

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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