Michael Xu
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Xu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently at Google in San Francisco. He has deep hands-on experience with Cloud Foundry and BOSH—contributing CI/CD, deployment manifests, and core infrastructure fixes for well-known open-source projects—demonstrating strong DevOps and backend skills. Previously at Pivotal, he worked on acceptance tests and cloud controller features for Docker apps and isolation segments, showing a blend of testing, platform, and feature engineering. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he combines rigorous systems thinking with practical automation, often tackling tricky integration and stemcell/versioning issues that quietly keep large-scale platforms reliable.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (30)
database-migrations10
bosh10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
bash10
web-deploy10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
ruby10
go10
api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits, 12 PRs, 131 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on modifying the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller (cloud_controller_ng) codebase. They implemented features to enhance the handling of application packages and route mappings, specifically for Docker-based applications. The work also included refactoring code to improve consistency, along with general code improvements. Their commits involved updating various service-related components and expanding functionality for interacting with the Diego platform.
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cloudfoundry/bosh
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:68 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the BOSH project by fixing integration tests related to orphaned disks, improving hotswap functionality, and refactoring the database migrator. They also worked on the scheduling and cleanup of orphaned VMs and addressed issues with the stemcell handling. The contributions demonstrate involvement in core infrastructure and deployment aspects of the BOSH system.
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