Summary
Xiang S is a product-minded software engineer and startup operator with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems, orchestration, and ML products across China and the UK. He co-led engineering and product at Limit-LAB, where he conceived an IDE/CI platform for LLM agents and shipped prototypes in Go, TypeScript and React that informed later agent engineering trends. As CTO/ML at 苏州开源人形科技 and current S5 participant at Spark Lab, he blends machine learning responsibility with rapid startup execution and fundraising experience (CNY 2M seed raised at Limit-LAB). He has practical cloud and DevOps chops—containerising services, running Aliyun K8s, and cutting release time by over 40%—and has taught OOP and led student labs, showing a knack for mentorship. Now pursuing advanced computing at Imperial College, he pairs formal graduate study with accelerator-backed product work, driven by curiosity and a taste for playful, paradoxical thinking (True may be False!).
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Advanced Computing, Master of Science - MS, Advanced Computing at Imperial College London
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Class I Honours, Overall 77.625%, GPA 4.25, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Class I Honours, Overall 77.625%, GPA 4.25 at University of Birmingham
Alumni, Spring 2025 - KIGLAND, Alumni, Spring 2025 - KIGLAND at MiraclePlus (formerly YC China)
Foundation degree, Computing, Pass with Distinction, Foundation degree, Computing, Pass with Distinction at Bellerbys College
Chinese, English