Xiao Li
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Li is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years building cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, currently contributing at LinkedIn after leadership roles at Salesforce and eBay. He specializes in Kubernetes-driven cluster management, platform-as-a-service design, and high-performance microservices using Go and JavaScript. Xiao has hands-on experience delivering highly available federation systems, topology-aware schedulers, and concurrent disruption controls that scale to production traffic. His work spans both backend infrastructure and developer-facing UIs, including early electron-based tooling and multi-cluster visualizations for large enterprise cloud platforms. An open-source-oriented engineer, he brings platform-level thinking to operational problems and a track record of turning complex orchestration requirements into pragmatic, production-grade solutions. Trained with dual Master’s degrees from UCSC and Beijing Institute of Technology, he blends control-systems rigor with practical cloud engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzMaster’s Degree Control Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Control Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (59)
mesos10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
kubernetes-monitoring10
kubernetes-cluster10
scheduling10
go10
k8s10
batch-processing10
controller9
argo9
machine-learning9
hpa9
aws9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slugiot/slugiot-server
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 7 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
lxlxok/lxlxok.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
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