Sherry Xiao is a seasoned Developer Level V specializing in retail applications and data migration, with over 15 years of hands-on experience and six years in her current senior developer role. Based in Fort Lauderdale, she has led eight enterprise migrations into SAP and Salesforce, built Azure Data Factory and SSIS pipelines, and authored C# (.NET) backend services to automate complex data flows into Cosmos DB. Her background spans SQL Server and Oracle development, SSRS reporting, and legacy-to-modern application upgrades, reflecting deep expertise in data profiling, cleansing, and stakeholder-driven solutions in the energy sector. Outside enterprise work she contributes monitoring and DevOps enhancements to prominent blockchain projects like Diem and Aptos, improving observability with non-numeric metrics and build automation—an uncommon blend of traditional enterprise data engineering and cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Information Technology, Master of Computer Science Information Technology at University of New Brunswick
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northern Jiaotong University
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:99 releases, 821 reviews, 149 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sherry's commits primarily focus on monitoring and infrastructure-related tasks within the Aptos core blockchain project. They implemented and refined metrics collection and exposure, adding non-numeric metrics and integrating Git revision information. Their contributions also include updates to Dockerfiles and build scripts for setting up the development environment and cluster testing, reflecting a focus on build automation and deployment. Further work was centered around modifying and adding counters and updating dashboards, indicating knowledge of performance monitoring tools within the blockchain ecosystem.
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 51 reviews, 39 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sherry primarily focused on improving the monitoring and metrics infrastructure within the Diem blockchain project. They added the ability to expose non-numeric metrics, specifically the Git revision, and refactored the public metric whitelist to use a constant. Additionally, the user removed old counters and updated the monitoring dashboard while also reworking storage counters. These changes indicate a focus on improving system observability and performance monitoring. The user also set up the environment variables for cluster testing, adding the write set tools into the docker image.
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