Xi Xia
Senior Software Engineer, Ingest Pipeline at New Relic
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolXi Xia is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput, observable systems at New Relic, currently leading the front-door ingest pipeline. An entrepreneur-turned-engineer, Xi wrote an open-source Java agent early in their career that instruments customer code for telemetry and later designed a distributed Elixir GraphQL mesh serving as a scalable API layer across 100+ downstream services. Colleagues describe Xi as proactive, resilient, and a clear communicator who mentors peers and takes ownership of hard problems end-to-end. Comfortable across JVM and functional ecosystems, they blend deep operational understanding with pragmatic engineering—turning messy inputs into reliable, production-ready solutions. Based in Portland, Oregon, Xi pairs hands-on contributions to the well-known newrelic-java-agent with platform-level architecture and delivery experience.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
javas10
configuration-management10
develop10
agent10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-java-agent
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
The New Relic Java agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 86 reviews, 212 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Xi primarily contributed to the New Relic Java agent, with commits focused on internal agent configurations and functionality. The user implemented changes related to configuration settings, including obscuring keys and system property overrides. They also modified code related to data sending and error handling within the agent. These commits demonstrate an understanding of the agent's inner workings and configuration management.
newrelicagentjsinteropsecurityjava-agent
XiXiaPdx/SprintTimer
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 5 months
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