Lan Xiao
Founding Engineer at Requesty
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLan Xiao is a founding engineer and Cambridge-trained Information Engineering graduate with 11 years building distributed systems, immersive 3D platforms, and ML-driven product features. Currently leading product and engineering at Requesty after raising $3M to create an enterprise LLM gateway, Lan blends hands-on implementation with go-to-market impact. Previously as Team Lead and Principal Engineer at Gravity Sketch, they architected multi-region AWS backends, real-time multiplayer VR/WebGL systems, and scalable model inference on Kubernetes and SageMaker. At Improbable they combined engineering, product and team leadership to shape developer-facing Workflows and platform SDKs built in Go, gRPC and Kubernetes. Known for shipping end-to-end analytics and pioneering applied AI (RAG and generative 2D/3D), Lan brings a pragmatic research mindset rooted in Cambridge machine learning and NLP training. Colleagues rely on Lan for turning ambitious research into production-grade, enterprise-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Hons) leading to MEng Information and Computer Engineering, B.A. (Hons) leading to MEng Information and Computer Engineering at University of Cambridge
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
high-availability10
monitoring10
lucky-framework10
storage10
google-cloud-storage10
thanos10
glusterfs9
sdk9
prometheus-exporter9
platform-sdk9
observability9
crossword9
csharp9
go9
prometheus9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GravitySketch/images
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 7 months
lx223/read-later-chrome-extension
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 88 commits, 42 pushes in 6 months
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