Kailong C
Engineering Manager at Google
China
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Top SchoolKailong C is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and shipping production-grade software across leading tech companies in China. He currently leads engineering at Tencent while also holding a Software Engineer role focused on Cloud AI at Google, blending management with hands-on AI infrastructure work. His background includes a master's in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and deep backend expertise demonstrated by contributions to the widely used XGBoost project, where he implemented GBRT logic and model persistence. Kailong is comfortable operating at the intersection of distributed systems, machine learning, and scalable data pipelines, turning research-grade algorithms into reliable production services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who still dives into code to solve thorny performance and data-loading challenges. He brings a rare combination of enterprise-scale delivery experience and open-source credibility.
12 years of coding experience
硕士, Computer Science, 硕士, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (7)
gbm10
machine-learning10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
dmlc/xgboost
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kailong primarily contributed to the implementation of a Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) algorithm within the XGBoost library. Their work involved creating the `gbrt.h` and `xgboost_regression_data_reader.h` files, which included the core GBRT logic, training procedures, and data loading mechanisms. The commits showcase the addition of saving and loading model functionalities.
xgboostpythonflinkdaskdataflow
travisbrady/xgboost
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 13 days
extrememachine-learningextreme-gradient-boostinggradientboosting
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