Bicheng Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBicheng Xu is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with 8 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently leading YouTube playlist infrastructure. He brings a strong computer science foundation from Northeastern and UC San Diego and proven impact from internships and early roles—most notably speeding PayPal page loads from 16s to 6s on slow networks and boosting an internal React compiler’s performance by 700%. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, Go, Python and cloud-native tooling, he designs and ships services spanning React frontends, Node/Spring backends, relational and NoSQL databases, and AWS deployments. Bicheng combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, advancing L3 through L6 SWE levels while mentoring teams on reliability and performance. He’s an efficient problem-solver who often focuses on pragmatic optimizations and developer experience—refactoring shared component libraries into production npm packages. Based in Seattle, he balances deep systems thinking with a track record of measurable, production-first improvements.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
teammates10
google-cloud10
java10
angular10
god3
react2
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uxxSam/Node-MySQL-Rest-API-Passport-JWT
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
uxxSam/teammates
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches, 2 tags in 2 months
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