Jiangling Xiao is a technology leader with 11 years of experience building backend systems and driving growth, currently serving as Vice President of Services & Growth at A4x AIoT in Los Angeles. He progressed from SDE roles at Amazon to backend tech lead and now executive leadership, blending hands-on engineering with strategic go-to-market responsibilities. His technical background includes contributing to VerneMQ, an industrial-grade distributed MQTT broker, where he focused on documentation, bug fixes, and code quality—work that underscores a pragmatic commitment to maintainable distributed systems. Jiangling holds a Master's in Computer Science from USC and a bachelor's from UESTC, giving him strong academic foundations in addition to industry experience. He brings a knack for translating complex backend reliability work into customer-facing services and growth initiatives. Colleagues describe him as a developer-leader who quietly improves operational quality while scaling teams and products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP. Built for high quality & Industrial use cases. The VerneMQ mission is active & the project maintained. Thank you for your support!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 179 reviews, 410 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jiangling primarily contributed to documentation updates and bug fixes within the VerneMQ project. Their work included minor cleanups and enhancements to installation guides, startup instructions, and changelogs. They also addressed issues through code modifications, including dialyzer fixes and the removal of dead code, showcasing a focus on code quality and maintainability.
A pure Erlang Key/Value store - based on a LSM-tree, optimised for HEAD requests
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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Jiangling Xiao - Vice President Of Services & Growth at A4x AIoT