Cheng Xu
Senior Director Of Technology & Principal Architect at Akulaku
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolCheng Xu is a seasoned technology leader and principal architect with 14 years of experience designing high-load, high-concurrency distributed and big data systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Technology & Principal Architect at Akulaku in Beijing. He has held senior technical and leadership roles across prominent Chinese tech companies including Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi, Meituan, and fintech and social startups, bringing both large-platform rigor and startup velocity to engineering teams. Cheng’s background in AI for computer vision from Illinois Institute of Technology complements his systems expertise, enabling him to bridge machine learning requirements with scalable production architectures. Known for shaping cloud-native, data-intensive platforms and leading cross-functional engineering organizations, he often drives practical trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost. Less obvious: his career path shows a rhythm of moving between product-focused startups and major internet companies, suggesting strength in adapting architectures to vastly different operational scales.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Nankai UniversityMaster's degree, AI for Computer Vision & Ctrl, Master's degree, AI for Computer Vision & Ctrl at Illinois Institute of TechnologyGithub contributions (3)
xucheng/meituan_restful_api
May 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 1 month
xucheng/gitflow
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model.
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 month
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