Xi Li
Principal Engineer, Manager Of Pathfinding Team At DDN Whamcloud
Putuo District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXi Li is a Principal Engineer and manager of the Pathfinding team at DDN/Whamcloud with 13 years focused on high-performance and parallel file systems, particularly Lustre. He leads development and releases of DDN Lustre, architects features from QoS and policy engines to ARM and Btrfs OSD support, and reliably bridges product development with production technical support. Xi has driven scalable monitoring, automatic regression testing, and client-side caching innovations, and maintains several open-source tooling projects such as ESMON and collectd integrations for Lustre. Based in Shanghai, he combines hands-on kernel- and user-space engineering with team leadership, and is known for turning complex I/O and data placement challenges into production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronics Science and Technology at Peking UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree, Computer Science and Technology at Sourth Institute of Computer Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (51)
monitoring10
filesystem10
delete10
lustre10
vfs10
hpc-applications10
luks10
ext210
portability10
computational-science9
finder9
filemaker9
libgit29
system-monitoring9
collectd9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DDNStorage/LustrePerfMon
Apr 2014 - Jun 2020
Lustre Monitoring System based on Collectd, Grafana and Influxdb
Contributions:2 reviews, 373 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 3 months
collectdinfluxdblustregrafanasystem-monitoring
LiXi-storage/libs3
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 1 push, 2 tags in 2 years 11 months
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