Mingze Xiao
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingze Xiao is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and modern frontends, currently driving Developer Experience & Infrastructure at OpenAI. Previously at Google he led a frontend modernization that boosted core internal tool engagement by 75% and built shared observability and MCP server solutions to safely connect AI agents with private data. His background spans scaling open-source UI libraries at Box, founding a cross-platform startup that grew to 2,000+ users, and hands-on contributions to cost-saving prototypes and productivity tools. Trained with a BS and MS in Computer Science from UIUC, he blends practical product impact with deep systems and developer-experience engineering. Notably, he moves between shipping polished UIs and architecting secure backend integrations, making him effective at bridging product, platform, and privacy-sensitive AI infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
accessibility10
javascript10
pluggable10
viewer10
box-api10
reader10
rendering10
pdf-reader10
pdf10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
pdf-generation10
react10
browser-extension9
annotations9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mxiao6/box-annotations
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
JavaScript library for annotations on files rendered with Box Content Preview
Contributions:313 pushes, 144 branches in 10 months
javascript-libraryannotationsboxjavascriptbox-content-preview
mxiao6/Graduation-Helper
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:164 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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