Summary
Xian Teng is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and simplifying cloud-native data platforms and back-end systems across AWS and Azure. He excels in small, cross-functional teams, reducing operational overhead by retiring legacy services, automating workflows, and moving sensitive systems to managed secrets and observability tools. Xian has led production data pipelines, AI-driven alerting, and developer-experience improvements that cut onboarding time and turnaround from days to hours while mentoring teammates. His background spans full-stack work in Python, Go, TypeScript, and infrastructure as code, and he has a track record of measurably lowering costs and emissions through pragmatic engineering. Trained at Northwestern University (BS/MS CS), he’s particularly adept at translating acquired or legacy systems into maintainable, low-friction platforms for compact retained teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, Chinese, Japanese