Lei Xia
Sr. Engineering Manager at The Apache Software Foundation
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Xia is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of industry experience building and leading distributed systems teams across Databricks and LinkedIn. He combines hands-on technical depth—evidenced by long-term Apache Helix PMC/committer work—with people leadership to scale engineers from L4 to L6 and grow high-impact platforms. Based in California, he has moved between individual contributor and management roles, giving him rare empathy for both architecture-level decisions and day-to-day delivery tradeoffs. His academic background spans Nanjing University through a Northwestern Ph.D., reflecting a strong research-to-production trajectory that informs his pragmatic approach to complex infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Nanjing UniversityPhD Candidate, PhD Candidate at University of Illinois at ChicagoPh.D., Ph.D. at Northwestern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
big-data10
apache10
java10
helix10
datastore6
data-stream6
replication5
aerospike5
batch5
management5
realtime5
apache-pinot4
lifecycle4
apache-flink4
partitioning4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/helix
Oct 2014 - Jul 2020
Mirror of Apache Helix
Contributions:55 reviews, 345 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 10 months
helixapachebig-datacloudjava
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