Alfred Xiao
Senior Kafka Consultant at LimePoint
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAlfred Xiao is a Senior Kafka Consultant based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating JVM-based distributed systems. He combines deep expertise in Kafka, microservices, and data platforms with a strong background in functional programming (Clojure, Scala, Haskell) and JVM performance tuning. His career spans enterprise roles at LimePoint, NAB, Qantas Hotels, ANZ and Oracle, where he focused on resilience, troubleshooting and middleware integration. Alfred contributes to open-source and personal projects—such as a JVM tracing tool and Go-language course contributions—demonstrating a habit of turning curiosity about system internals into practical tooling. He is especially skilled at bridging legacy Oracle middleware and modern event-driven architectures, helping organisations adopt Confluent and data-personalisation platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,778reputation
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
go10
java9
spring9
strings9
test-driven-design9
text-manipulation9
macros6
clojure6
xml6
leiningen6
namespaces6
javadoc6
notnull6
documentation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anz-bank/go-course
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Go Programming Language Course
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alfred's contributions primarily involved implementing and testing code for a Go programming language course. They implemented letter counting and sorting functionality, including comprehensive unit tests. The user also contributed to a Fibonacci sequence implementation and testing, demonstrating an understanding of algorithm design and testing practices within the Go environment. The user was also involved in a Stringer implementation.
golangprogramming-languagego
alfredxiao/jackplay
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:319 commits, 166 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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