Edwin Xie
Software Engineer at Google
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Xie is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems, currently at Google in Oakland, CA. He has deep hands-on expertise in Cloud Foundry and BOSH ecosystems, contributing operational fixes and CI/CD, and has improved core components like the CF router and Diego release. At VMware and Pivotal he progressed from developer to senior technical staff, focusing on reliability, deployment automation, and cross-platform build tooling. Edwin combines backend engineering with DevOps instincts—updating stemcell builds, GCP integrations, and test/CI scripts—so he’s equally comfortable changing code and the pipelines that run it. His open-source contributions reflect pragmatic problem-solving: from proxy and host validation fixes to adding CA support and handling concurrent connections. Colleagues describe him as a practical systems engineer who surfaces subtle infrastructure issues before they become outages.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) EECS, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) EECS at University of California, Berkeley - College of Engineering
Github Skills (18)
bosh10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
configuration-management10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
powershell10
windows9
http8
networking7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/gorouter
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
CF Router
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 5 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily contributed to the `gorouter` project by fixing proxy tests and adding support for CA certificates in the UAA configuration. They also made changes to the code base to handle multiple connections and ensure that an open connection does not block others. They also addressed an issue with host validation logic, removing it from the GoRouter implementation. These changes involved modifications to the router and proxy test files, as well as configuration-related code.
cloud-foundryconcoursecff-wg-app-runtime-platformcloudfoundrypcf
cloudfoundry/diego-release
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
BOSH Release for Diego
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:102 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily focused on modifying scripts and configuration files related to the deployment and operation of the Diego release. Their commits involved changes to PowerShell scripts used in Windows unit tests and post-start scripts. They also updated configuration files, including those for the rep and BBS jobs, demonstrating an understanding of the infrastructure and configuration management aspects of the cloudfoundry/diego-release. Further contributions included bumping submodules and adjusting CI/CD related scripts.
boshdiegocloud-foundrycff-wg-app-runtime-platformcloudfoundry
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