Huan Xie
Staff Software Engineer at Citrix
Jiangsu, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHuan Xie is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years focused on cloud computing and systems engineering, currently driving OpenStack and XenServer work at Citrix. He has deep hands-on experience in OpenStack Nova and Neutron—contributing bug fixes, race-condition resolutions around VIF plugging, Neutron security group support, and live migration improvements to widely used upstream projects. Prior roles span telecoms and embedded media systems at Ericsson and Huawei, giving him a strong foundation in C++, Java, real-time systems and L3 LTE design. He blends backend development with DevOps expertise, having improved DevStack/XenServer integration and cloud installation automation. Comfortable navigating both low-level protocol and large-scale cloud infrastructure, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and migration robustness that helps complex clouds run smoothly.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, pattern recogintion, speech recognition, Master's degree, pattern recogintion, speech recognition at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shandong University
English
Github Skills (23)
xapi10
xserver10
python10
bash10
openstack-nova10
n10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
xen10
devops10
networking9
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
shell8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/devstack
Aug 2015 - May 2017
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Huan primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration of the OpenStack cloud environment, specifically focusing on the XenServer hypervisor integration within the Devstack setup. Their commits addressed issues related to XenServer compatibility, including supporting newer versions and configuring network bridges. The user modified installation scripts, such as `install_os_domU.sh`, to ensure proper functionality within the XenServer environment. They also worked on removing obsolete code related to the integration bridge.
installingtestinginfrastructureopenshiftupstream
openstack/nova
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Huan primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the OpenStack Nova compute service. They addressed race conditions related to Neutron integration, specifically resolving issues with VIF plugging during instance booting and rescuing. Furthermore, the user implemented support for Neutron security groups and live migration enhancements, including fixes for iSCSI SR volume migration. Their contributions also included refactoring code and removing deprecated features within the XenAPI driver.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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