Andy Xu
Staff Software Engineer (IC4) at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Xu is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and over a decade of experience building large-scale data and observability systems across Google and Snowflake. He formerly helped power Google Cloud Dataflow’s streaming engine and led Snowflake’s Telemetry and Observability efforts, designing ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, SDKs, dashboards, and alerting while inventing multiple patented telemetry technologies. At Snowflake he moved from founding customer-facing telemetry capabilities to leading internal observability platform work, and now contributes to BigQuery and BigLake at Google. Andy combines deep research-driven rigor with hands-on production engineering, routinely shipping complex distributed systems that span storage, ingestion, and query-performance concerns. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns tricky observability requirements into pragmatic, scalable infrastructure—often by inventing new building blocks rather than bolting on integrations.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (12)
golang10
data-processing10
batch10
big-data10
apache10
apache-beam10
python10
sql10
java10
streaming-data10
beam10
streaming10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
andyxiexu/beam
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
beambatchstreamingapacheprogramming-model
apache/beam
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
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