Peter Xu
Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure at Eightfold
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Xu is a senior infrastructure and SRE leader with 12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems for Big Data, real-time stream processing, and AI/ML platforms. He has repeatedly combined hands-on architectural and software development skills with people leadership—scaling teams, mentoring managers, and driving cross-functional strategy at companies like Meta, Workday, and now Eightfold. Notable wins include launching Workday’s Cloud Platform to 100 customers and $5M ARR, leading Meta’s batch and realtime compute reliability at x10 growth, and delivering multi-million-dollar cost savings through capacity and efficiency programs. He pairs a PhD-level AI/background and pragmatic engineering instincts (aptly summarized by his Github motto “Where there is a shell, there is a way”) to solve operationally complex problems such as LLaMA/RAG infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and disaster recovery. Based in Palo Alto, he thrives at the intersection of cloud-native engineering, SRE practices, and strategic organizational growth.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), M.Sc. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Peking UniversityPh.D. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Ph.D. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (33)
env10
asdf10
hyper10
http-client10
http9
rust9
data-structures8
algorithms8
rust-lang7
neovim7
literals7
vim7
tmux7
language-bindings6
zsh6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ptrsxu/reqwest
Apr 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 5 months
ptrsxu/dotfiles
Mar 2014 - Jun 2020
dotfiles for fast env set up.
Contributions:141 commits, 185 pushes in 6 years 3 months
vimtmuxset-upneovimasdf
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