Summary
Da Xing is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Niantic with a decade of experience building scalable infrastructure and revenue-driving products for games like Pokémon GO and Monster Hunter Now. He has led cross-functional engineering efforts across Ads, platform infrastructure, redemption and gift card systems, and trust & safety, routinely translating ambiguous strategic goals into deliverable roadmaps and accurate schedules. Known internally as a go-to mentor, he builds hiring and interview systems that improve team inclusivity and technical quality while coaching engineers across domains. Comfortable operating at both product and systems levels, he combines hands-on technical guidance on Redis, API gateways, and event/ticketing systems with program-level leadership of multi-project portfolios. Based in Sunnyvale, he leverages an electrical engineering master's from USC and a telecom engineering background to bridge deep technical rigor with business impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical Enginnering, Master’s Degree Electrical Enginnering at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English