Brian Xiang
Site Reliability Engineer at Capital One
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Xiang is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently at Capital One in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He blends software engineering and cybersecurity interests with practical SRE work—deploying reproducible, auto-scaling AWS infrastructure and contributing to internal CI/CD and observability practices. His background spans ML explainability tooling, full-stack web products, and rapid-launch educational platforms that served thousands of users, showing an ability to move between research code and production systems. Brian has experience mentoring and teaching at scale (grading for 700+ students and running workshops), which informs a collaborative, documentation-minded approach to reliability. He often pairs data-driven troubleshooting with pragmatic automation, and his early projects include mapping-based contact tracing with Mapbox achieving high spatial accuracy—an example of applying engineering to real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Thomas S Wootton High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (45)
javascript9
webpack9
open-source9
podcast8
discord-bot8
trend8
structures8
multipart8
iconv8
discord-js8
abaqus8
gameplay7
discord7
crossword7
accessibility7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CF12/music-bot
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 6 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 8 months
discord-jsdiscorddiscordjsbotdiscord-bot
cf12/discord-ethermine-tracker
Jun 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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