Ran
SVL, United States
Summary
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RockstarRan 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
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:21 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.
grpcjavarpcmicroservicesproto
ran-su/Netflix-marathon
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
A script for Tampermonkey, which will automatically skip recaps, intros and click nexts on Netflix and Amazon video for you.
Contributions:1 review, 33 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 9 months
tampermonkey
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