Jingxiao Gu
Staff Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJingxiao Gu is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading growth initiatives and new team builds for Messenger and Instagram at Facebook in New York. He has deep expertise in Feed and Stories ranking systems, having progressed from core ranking engineer to senior and staff roles while bridging product, ML, and infrastructure. Jingxiao has a strong academic foundation with an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia and a top-ranked bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University. He’s known for starting teams from scratch and delivering scalable ranking and search systems informed by production ML and data infrastructure experience. Prior internships at Baidu and Zuora reflect early focus on personalized recommendation and distributed sync services, giving him both algorithmic and systems breadth. Outside the obvious ranking work, he brings a habit of translating research-grade models into robust, deployable infra that moves products forward.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Top 1, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Top 1 at Wuhan UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese, English
Github Skills (55)
visualization9
canvas9
charts9
svg9
data-visualization8
gradle-kotlin-dsl8
trace8
apache8
browser8
echarts8
charting8
java8
gradle7
jvm7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dawnwords/jacoco-badge-gradle-plugin
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
jacoco badge gradle plugin
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years
gradlejacocobadgejavagradle-kotlin-dsl
dawnwords/LotterySale
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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