Xian Cao
Teaching Assistant at Northeastern University
Campbell, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXian Cao is a multidisciplinary software engineer and educator with 11 years of experience bridging healthcare, public health research, and cloud-native engineering. Trained as an MD and PhD in health services management, he pairs clinical intuition with hands-on development—building security-focused analytics pipelines and dashboards at AWS and an end-to-end Android app using modern ML and Jetpack tooling. As co-founder of GatherBlock he applies design thinking to strengthen social ties and community health through a web product, while teaching database fundamentals and systems thinking at Northeastern. He emphasizes trust, reliability, and measurable security outcomes, and has proven ability to take research insights through to production-grade services and CI/CD-enabled infrastructure. An unusual blend of geriatrics, health services research, and full-stack cloud engineering gives him a rare perspective on building technology that truly improves lived well-being.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health service management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health service management at Univeristy of Central FloridaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityMaster's degree Neuroscience, Master's degree Neuroscience at Soochow University (CN)Doctor of Medicine - MD Medicine, Doctor of Medicine - MD Medicine at Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine
Chinese, English
Github Skills (101)
aix10
linux10
netbsd10
admin10
ffmpeg10
video-player10
freebsd10
plugin10
dde10
player10
mod-manager9
user-guide9
desktop-application9
api9
audio9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sonald/wminspect
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:58 commits, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
linuxdeepin/deepin-metacity
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:404 commits, 3 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 6 months
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