Kezhi Xiong is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems, distributed protocols, and cloud-native services, currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Northeastern University and based in San Jose. At Splunk he works on strategic initiatives for a Lake House data platform, blending applied research insights with production-grade engineering. His open-source contributions include significant backend and DevOps work on widely used projects like the Jenkins Warnings Plugin and the hub4j GitHub API, where he added Check Suite capabilities and a Blame API to improve issue reporting. Prior internships at Graviti and Splunk and research on reconfigurable consensus protocols reflect a strong practical grounding in Golang microservices and fault-tolerant distributed systems. He brings both research rigor and hands-on refactoring and testing discipline—evident from unit-test improvements, API extensions, and SCM integration work in notable CI ecosystems. Colleagues would describe him as a curious engineer who bridges academic ideas and real-world reliability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 3.54 / 4, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 3.54 / 4 at 重庆大学
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4 / 4, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4 / 4 at 美国东北大学
Contributions:43 commits, 7 PRs, 38 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kezhi primarily contributed to the testing and refactoring of the Jenkins Warnings Plugin. Their work involved creating and modifying unit tests for the `IconLabelProvider` class, adhering to coding style guidelines by renaming constant variables. The user also introduced new API features, specifically the `BlameApi` to enhance issue reporting. Furthermore, the user integrated and configured SCM platform checks to the repository.
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kezhi primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `hub4j/github-api` project by adding new properties and methods to the `GHCheckRun` and `GHCheckSuite` classes. These additions included the `Output` class and JavaDoc updates. The user's work improved the API's capabilities and incorporated the Check Suite API, allowing for more comprehensive data and functionality. Additionally, the user refactored the code and updated timestamps to make them more readable.
apigithub-api-v3client-libraryjava-apijava
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