Alan Xie is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building scalable, high-throughput backend and data-streaming systems for connected vehicles. At Ford (formerly Autonomic) he works on the Commands Team, designing resilient cloud-to-vehicle APIs and Kafka-based streaming pipelines that support a fleet of over 24 million vehicles. He brings deep familiarity with Java/Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, PostgreSQL/DynamoDB, gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has moved between roles spanning DevOps, platform APIs, and CI/CD automation. Trained in health studies with a computing minor at the University of Waterloo, he pairs interdisciplinary thinking with practical production engineering, often bridging product needs and infrastructure constraints. Colleagues describe him as someone who thrives on operational durability and performance tuning at scale.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science - BSc, Health Studies Co-op, Computing Minor, Honours Bachelor of Science - BSc, Health Studies Co-op, Computing Minor at University of Waterloo
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Alan Xie - Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company