Kang Xie
Site Reliability Engineer at TikTok
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKang Xie is a site reliability engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling production systems across telecom, collaboration, and large-scale NoSQL platforms. He has moved from hands-on production engineering at Viavi to developing WebEx messenger services at Cisco and then operating distributed key-value databases for Twitter’s Manhattan team before joining Yugabyte and TikTok. Kang blends deep systems and networking knowledge from his wireless communications master's with practical SRE muscle—incident response, capacity planning, and database reliability—across both enterprise and consumer-grade services. He’s comfortable across the stack, from telecom test gear to cloud-native databases, and brings a pragmatic focus on observability and operational simplicity to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Wireless Communication, M.S Wireless Communication at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
databases10
scale-out10
sql10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
sql-database10
database10
oltp9
paxos9
distributed-systems9
yugabytedb9
distributed-database9
raft9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kangxie-colorado/golang-primer
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:48 pushes in 1 year 6 months
kangxie-colorado/ting_yu_lou
Aug 2022 - Apr 2023
壮年客舟夜听雨
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
java
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