Haotian Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaotian Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building highly available, consistent, and scalable distributed systems, most recently focused on DynamoDB at AWS where work targeted near-billion TPS and sub-millisecond latency. Now at Robinhood, he applies deep distributed-systems expertise to production-critical infrastructure, blending performance tuning with reliability engineering. His background combines a strong academic foundation—MS in Computer Science from UCLA and BS in Microelectronics from Fudan—with practical backend and cloud experience dating back to Amazon internships and early web backend roles. Notably, he bridges low-level system thinking and high-level programming practices, which helps him optimize across the stack for both throughput and latency. Based in Seattle, he brings a track record of operating at massive scale while keeping an engineer’s attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High Level Programming, High Level Programming at University of California, BerkeleyMinor, Economics, Minor, Economics at Fudan UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.9, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.9 at University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
yahoo8
benchmarking7
benchmark6
prometheus-exporter5
testbed5
prometheus3
kubernetes3
monitoring3
sdn3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xhtdevil/leetcode
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:413 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
xhtdevil/FDMTestBed
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
sdntestbed
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