Summary
Marco Xiong is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, backend services, and enterprise AI solutions. He has shipped production systems across Dropbox, eBay, and now Forma, combining expertise in Python, Java/C++, TypeScript, microservices, gRPC/GraphQL, and event-driven architectures. Marco designs and operates cloud-native platforms on Kubernetes with Terraform and GCP/AWS integrations, and he brings practical experience deploying ML/LLM features—RAG, vector embeddings (Milvus), agentic AI, and model eval/guardrail tooling—into production. His background in physics (B.S.) and an MS in Computer Science informs a data-driven, systems-first approach to solving ambiguous problems like AML and AI for business. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, scalable designs that balance robustness with iteration speed, and he often bridges research ideas into reliable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Sun Yat-sen University
English, Chinese, Chinese