Summary
Fangyu Xiong is a senior software engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems across startups and large tech companies. Currently at Ambient.ai, he brings production-grade expertise from six years at Facebook where he contributed to Security, Video Product, and Integrity teams using PHP/Hack, React, C++, GraphQL, and Python. His background spans backend architecture, data pipelines, and computer vision research—early work includes Hadoop, Pig/Hive jobs and an object recognition system for mobile robotics. Fangyu pairs product-facing frontend sensibilities with deep systems knowledge, having implemented APIs, middleware, and scalable data processing for analytics and media. He also has hands-on experience mentoring and teaching as a college tutor and lab supervisor, which informs a collaborative, user-focused engineering approach. Quietly versatile, he moves between low-level performance work and high-level product trade-offs with equal fluency.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Haverford College
Chinese, English, Spanish