Kaoji Xu
Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaoji Xu is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in C/C++ development, performance optimization, and visualization, currently driving 3D PCB efforts at Cadence Design Systems. He brings deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and meshing—particularly hexahedral meshing, processing, and structure simplification—grounded in prior work building high-throughput analytics platforms and visualization tools. Kaoji has a strong academic foundation (PhD work in Computer Science) and hands-on teaching experience automating C++ coursework and managing large student labs, reflecting both technical depth and mentorship ability. His background includes tangible performance wins—profiling and optimizing systems handling multi-GB/s traffic and reducing cache misses with huge pages—showing a pragmatic focus on measurable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD degree, Computer Science, PhD degree, Computer Science at University of HoustonMaster's degree, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 3.0, Master's degree, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 3.0 at Tianjin UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.27, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.27 at Hunan University
Github Skills (5)
mesh-processing8
react2
visualization2
mesh2
rabbitvcs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Cotrik/Cotrik.github.io
Aug 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
Cotrik/UI
Nov 2017 - May 2018
UI for mesh visualization
Contributions:5 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
meshreactvisualization
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