Hongcheng Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongcheng Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Computational Biophysics and a decade of experience building data-driven infrastructure and product features at Meta and Google. He specializes in optimizing high-throughput pipelines—most recently improving Facebook ads retrieval for monetization—and has a strong track record in offline data transfer, media delivery, and analytics for consumer-scale apps. His academic work bridged large-scale molecular simulation, machine learning, and efficient HPC workflows, producing models and tools that reduced simulation costs by an order of magnitude. Comfortable across full-stack and research settings, he combines rigorous scientific methods with pragmatic engineering to accelerate product launches and scientific discovery for billions of users. Beyond production systems, he maintains an active GitHub and scholarly presence, reflecting a rare blend of applied research and production-grade software engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biophysics at University of MarylandBS Computational Biology/Biological Science, BS Computational Biology/Biological Science at Nanjing Normal University
Chinese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
simulation10
speech-to-text10
multiplayer10
msbuild10
discord10
windows10
text-to-speech10
linux10
speech-synthesis10
voice-conversion10
cmake10
visual-studio10
speech10
vocoder10
cpp10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
collvey/AutoHotKey
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 42 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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