Kefan Xie
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKefan Xie is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable products across startups and major tech firms, now contributing as a Member of Technical Staff at xAI in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has held engineering and leadership roles at ByteDance, Slack, and as VP of Engineering at a PixAI spinout, blending hands-on implementation with team-level strategy. His background spans backend systems, web platforms, and emerging areas like deep learning and blockchain research—an explicit focus he’s been pursuing alongside production-grade engineering. Early internships at Microsoft, Qualcomm, and several startups seeded a practical full-stack discipline that he applies to high-performance, real-world systems. Known for moving between individual contributor and lead roles, he brings both executional rigor and product-minded technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Northview Heights S.S.Bachelor’s Degree Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering at University of Waterloo
Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,053reputation
111kreached
15answers
17questions
file-upload
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
slack-bot9
hubot9
file-upload9
react9
database9
rust8
scalable8
time-series8
datastore8
monitoring8
coffeescript8
timeseries-database7
slack7
go7
influxdb7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gtr32x/fishing
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
gtr32x/ConversionDisplay
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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