Summary
Haoyu Xu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with seven years building large-scale machine learning data platforms and distributed systems. He has driven ML data infrastructure at Apple and Amazon, working across languages like Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala, Go and TypeScript and tooling such as AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop and HBase. His background blends systems engineering (M.S. from Boston University) with hands-on experience optimizing data pipelines for Alexa AI and applied ML teams. Comfortable across cloud-native and big data stacks, he focuses on reliability, performance and scalable data ingestion. Notably, he moved from core platform work at Amazon into applied ML infrastructure at Apple, showing a pattern of owning end-to-end data lifecycles for production ML. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges research needs and production constraints to accelerate ML delivery.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at National Taiwan University
Bachelor's degree Engineering Management, Bachelor's degree Engineering Management at Jiangsu University
Master of Science - MS System Engineering, Master of Science - MS System Engineering at Boston University
Chinese, English