Ran Xin
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRan Xin is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, performance-sensitive systems across Google products, currently contributing to AR Experiences from Sunnyvale. He has deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used grpc-java project where he optimized core components, improved test access, and fixed transport/header issues in the okhttp module. Ran’s tenure spans Search, YouTube TV Android client, and AR, reflecting a versatility across backend services and client platforms. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Tech and began his career improving production systems at large consumer-facing companies, bringing a pragmatic focus on performance, correctness, and cross-team impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, E-commerce Engineering with Laws, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, E-commerce Engineering with Laws at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
javas10
proto10
microservices-application10
microservices10
java10
grpc10
okhttp9
performance-optimization9
build-system8
testing8
bazel8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-java
May 2019 - May 2022
The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 27 commits, 82 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ran primarily contributed to the core Java gRPC implementation, addressing areas such as performance optimization, and internal test access. They modified and added to core components, including internal accessor for PerfMark, and configuration for auto-configured load balancer. They also worked on fixing header schemes related to transport type within the okhttp module.
rpcgrpc-javaprotobufgrpcnetty
ran-su/grpc-java
Apr 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:68 pushes, 62 branches in 5 years 7 months
rpcgrpc-javaprotobufgrpcnetty
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