Andong Xie
Software Engineer at Cash App
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndong Xie is a software engineer with 10 years' experience building distributed systems, microservices, and databases using Golang and C++, currently contributing to Cash App / Afterpay within Block. He has a strong background in high-scale payments and infrastructure from roles at Grab and internships at Red Hat and Huawei, blending kernel/virtualization QA experience with production service development. Andong is comfortable across backend layers—service design, performance optimization, and data stores—and has repeatedly moved between startup-speed delivery and enterprise-grade reliability. Based in Melbourne, he brings international experience across APAC payments platforms and a practical, systems-first approach to solving latency and scalability challenges. Notably, his career path shows a steady progression from OS/kernel work into large-scale financial services, giving him a deeper understanding of low-level performance trade-offs that inform his service-level decisions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology, 20%, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology, 20% at Hefei University of Technology
Github Skills (20)
testing4
wikipedia4
hyper-v4
vdi4
hyper3
azure3
linux3
data-structure2
windows2
baidu2
shell2
powershell2
infrastructure2
key-value1
data-structures1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xernyuii/googleByShell
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
powershellshellbaiduwikipedia
xernyuii/DjangoPractice
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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