Kexin Xie
VP & Principal Architect, Software Engineering at Salesforce
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKexin Xie is a hands-on VP and Principal Architect with 12+ years building large-scale data platforms and machine learning infrastructure, currently leading the next-generation AI-powered data platform for Salesforce Marketing Cloud. He has repeatedly scaled ML systems from billions to hundreds of billions of daily predictions and blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering practices to ship production ML features. A published researcher with a PhD and regular conference speaker, he bridges academia and industry—designing distributed algorithms, mentoring teams, and shaping technical roadmaps. Founder and maintainer of multiple open-source Scala projects for orchestration, pipelines, and resilient services, he brings deep Scala/Spark/Hadoop expertise and a bias for shipping practical, maintainable systems. Notably, he cultivates speed and craftsmanship in large teams, enabling them to move faster than typical startups while operating at enterprise scale.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (49)
salesforce-marketing-cloud10
appender10
stat10
marketing-cloud10
shapeless10
solver9
aws9
least-squares9
atom-plugin9
sbt-plugin8
clustering8
scala8
scala-native7
java7
complex7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
realstraw/dot-nvim
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
krux/hyperion
Mar 2015 - Dec 2021
Scala library and abstractions for AWS DataPipeline
Contributions:1 release, 243 PRs, 207 pushes in 6 years 9 months
scala-libraryscalaawsabstractionsshapeless
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