Summary
Sisu Xi is a Principal-level engineer with 12 years building high-stakes distributed systems, from sub-microsecond trading infrastructure to web-scale copyright protection and enterprise AI platforms. He specializes in turning multi-team coordination problems into self-serve platforms—examples include DMA compliance across 1,000+ engineers at Amazon, an authorization platform designed for 400x growth at Stripe, and an integration framework that cut onboarding cycles from 125 to 15 weeks. Pragmatic and metrics-driven, he surfaces hidden organizational costs (e.g., quantifying 28% developer overhead across 300+ engineers) and secures executive buy-in to deliver measurable reductions. His work blends deep research (Ph.D. in real-time systems, EMSOFT Test-of-Time Award) with product impact, shipping systems used at scale at Facebook, Google, Stripe, and Amazon. Based in New York, he now focuses on AI and infrastructure roles, bringing a rare combination of low-latency system design and large-org platformization skills.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Research Assitant Computer Science and Techonology, Research Assitant Computer Science and Techonology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Chinese