James Xian
Cofounder at Metabit
Singapore
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Top SchoolJames Xian is a cofounder and software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems at the intersection of finance, math, and computer science. Based in Singapore, he leads Metabit Trading where he designs quantitative solutions for financial markets, applying techniques honed during a prior role at Facebook where he built low-latency, power-efficient edge-ML engines for AR/VR. He holds an MCDS from Carnegie Mellon and a CS degree from Peking University, combining rigorous academic training with product-focused engineering. Known for turning complex mathematical models into production-ready software, he blends research-grade analytics with practical systems engineering to squeeze latency and cost out of real-time decision systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Peking UniversityChengdu No.7 high schoolMaster’s Degree, MCDS, Master’s Degree, MCDS at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (46)
palm10
rdbms10
database-management10
xv610
dbms10
database10
concurrent8
intel8
memory-management7
julia6
sql6
parser6
analytics6
in-memory6
embedded-database5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ranxian/xv6-chinese
Sep 2013 - Aug 2016
中文版的 MIT xv6 文档
Contributions:137 commits, 43 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 10 months
xv6mit
ranxian/unisim
Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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