Eryu Xia
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEryu Xia is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building performant client and server systems at companies like Google and Facebook. Based in Mountain View, he has led work on gRPC-Web, mobile/web sync and streaming for Hangouts Chat, and integrations for Google Voice/Project Fi, demonstrating deep expertise in networking, client/server sync protocols, and performance engineering. His open-source contributions include improving web channel metadata and reliability in Google's Closure Library and hardening build and CI pipelines for the widely-used grpc-web project, reflecting a strong practical focus on robustness and developer experience. Comfortable across backend, mobile, and front-end stacks, he also brings experience in data pipelines and instrumentation from his time at Facebook. Colleagues rely on him to untangle complex asynchronous networking and production-build issues while keeping delivery fast and testable. He pairs an MS in Computer Science with a track record of shipping cross-platform systems that quietly improve reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
Github Skills (20)
closure10
javascript10
protractor10
docker10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
build-automation10
closures10
web-content9
webpages9
bash9
http9
fetch-api9
grpc9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-web
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
gRPC for Web Clients
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 releases, 154 reviews, 51 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eryu focused on improving the build and test processes for the gRPC-Web project. They updated build scripts, automated testing using Protractor and Docker, and addressed issues related to dependencies and caching. Contributions included fixing Envoy configuration, updating build tools and dependencies, and modifying the CI environment to ensure a more reliable and efficient build pipeline. The user also addressed an issue with the protoc-plugin in CI.
grpcjavascript
google/closure-library
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Google's common JavaScript library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eryu's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Google Closure Library's web channel functionality. Their work involved implementing and refining features related to metadata handling within web channel requests, fixing bugs related to stream abortion and HTTP status code reporting, and adding options for enabling or disabling specific functionalities. Additionally, they addressed duplicate dispatch issues and implemented a mechanism for the library to ping google.com. The user's changes span multiple files, demonstrating expertise in web channel architecture and associated testing.
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