Tim Xia
Staff ML Engineer, GenAI at Mozilla
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Xia is a Staff ML Engineer focused on GenAI at Mozilla with nine years of experience building production ML features and scalable web systems, including shipping a local-AI powered Link Preview for Firefox. He combines deep backend engineering—from large-scale archive processing and Kafka integrations at The New York Times to IoT/embedded contributions on esp-idf—with hands-on ML productization work in radiology and consumer-facing search. Skilled across Python, Java, Go, C#, and frontend stacks, Tim also sets up CI/CD, Git workflows, Linux deployments, and EC2 clusters to keep teams shipping. Early experience building high-throughput newspaper tilers and game production work shows a practical knack for optimizing performance and turning prototypes into robust products. He is based in New York and brings a mix of systems-level debugging and product-first ML engineering to cross-disciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (12)
esp3210
iot10
embedded10
low-level-programming10
rtos10
c-programming10
sys10
wifi10
network-programming9
sdk9
bluetooth-le8
bluetooth8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:246 commits, 234 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on modifying and extending the Espressif IoT Development Framework, evidenced by their work on the core WiFi functionality. Their contributions include fixing return values for essential functions, refactoring WiFi clock settings, and addressing issues related to smartconfig and event handling. The user demonstrated a deep understanding of the ESP32's low-level workings, making changes to internal APIs, and adding support for features like CSI and WiFi null mode.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
espressif/esp32-wifi-lib
Sep 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:215 commits, 3 comments in 4 years 6 months
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