Rucheng Xiao
Software Engineer II at Instacart
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRucheng Xiao is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, cloud-native web services, currently shipping features at Instacart. He has designed and operated high-impact systems at AWS and AppFolio—ranging from a million-user partner funding portal and credits batch processing to renter insurance services that boosted revenue through data-driven experimentation. Comfortable across the full stack, he blends Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React and AWS serverless patterns (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CDK) to deliver reliable, observable services. He’s applied event-sourcing and CQRS for performance-sensitive domains and built data pipelines into Snowflake, showing a knack for both architecture and pragmatic automation. Based in Chicago with a strong academic background in information systems, he often connects product metrics to engineering trade-offs to drive measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems, 3.9, Master's degree, Information Systems, 3.9 at Northeastern UniversityBachelor's degree, Logistics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Logistics Engineering at Shanghai Maritime University
Shanghainese, Chinese, English
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Github contributions (5)
ruchengxiao/neu-sep17-assignments
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ruchengxiao/Real-time-Running-Location-Simulation-System
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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