Jiang Xu
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiang Xu is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 19 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native and distributed systems, currently working on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. He has deep production experience operating and evolving cluster schedulers and container infrastructure from roles at Apple and Twitter, and served nearly a decade as an Apache Mesos committer and PMC member contributing bug fixes, refactors, and reliability improvements to a foundational open-source cluster manager. Jiang blends hands-on systems engineering—debugging ZooKeeper interactions, logging issues, and test race conditions—with leadership in roadmap and community building. His background includes a PhD in Computer Science and a track record of operating Mesos clusters at 10^4 hosts scale, revealing both research rigor and large-scale operational expertise.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science/Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science/Engineering at University of Florida
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
mesos10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
zookeeper10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mesos
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Apache Mesos
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jiang primarily contributed to bug fixes within the Apache Mesos codebase, focusing on issues related to logging, ZooKeeper interactions, and test flakiness. They implemented fixes related to incorrect log output, ZNOAUTH errors, and race conditions in tests. The user also contributed to refactoring the code for more readability and better state management. Their contributions indicate a strong understanding of the system's internals and related distributed systems concepts.
apachebig-datacloudmesosjava
xujyan/mesos
Apr 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years
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