Heng Xiong
Senior Staff Engineer at Rippling
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeng Xiong is a Senior Staff Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience architecting large-scale, production systems and guiding multi-team migrations from monoliths to service-oriented, Go-based microservices. At Rippling he leads the Insurance org’s technical roadmap and culture during hypergrowth, while shaping company-wide architecture and hiring as a member of the engineering architecture and recruiting committees. Previously he led critical operational systems at Uber (airport driver prioritization with ML features) and shipped driving-mode and Ruby cloud tooling at Google that reached billions of devices. Heng blends hands-on engineering, release ownership, and strong testing discipline—evidenced by contributions to the Google Auth Ruby library where he managed releases and quality fixes—making him adept at turning legacy stacks into enterprise-ready platforms.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (16)
rspec10
oauth10
ruby10
apidoc9
google-api9
googleapis9
api9
release-management8
rubymine6
algorithm6
google-cloud-logging6
google-cloud-platform6
javascript6
multidimensional-arrays6
rubygems6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-auth-library-ruby
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Google Auth Library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 17 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Heng primarily focused on improving code quality and ensuring the reliability of the Google Auth Library for Ruby. Their contributions included fixing RuboCop violations to maintain code style, addressing Ruby 1.9.3 compatibility issues, and upgrading to a new token URI. They also made changes to various test files, indicating a focus on testing and maintaining the integrity of the library. A release of version 0.5.3 was also performed, suggesting a role in managing the project's releases.
auth-librarygoogle-auth-libraryrailsrubygoogle-auth
hxiong388/google-cloud-ruby
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 266 pushes, 100 branches in 1 year
googleclient-libraryrubygoogle-cloud
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