Xiao Yuan
Head Of Growth at NewsBang
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Yuan is a seasoned software leader with 9 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and full-stack products, now leading Growth at NewsBang in Palo Alto. He has repeatedly combined product, engineering, and data to drive user growth and product-market fit, most recently architecting AI-powered growth platforms and marketing foundations at SmartNews that helped the app reach Top 2 on app stores. Comfortable operating across strategy and execution, Xiao has built growth stacks from scratch, led cross-functional squads, and shipped monetization and gamification features at scale. His background includes contributing to what became Apple News+ and driving performance-focused engineering at Smule, showing a long habit of turning ambitious product visions into measurable business outcomes. Xiao pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic, metric-driven approach and a stated ambition to impact a billion people, signaling both technical depth and big-picture ambition.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of OregonBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Donghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (108)
python10
databases10
hadoop10
bigtable10
trino10
sql-query10
prestodb10
big-data10
data-analytics10
snowplow10
sql10
h210
presto10
database10
kudu10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
baidu/iot-edge-sdk-for-iot-parser
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 6 months
smartnews/hadoop
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Apache Hadoop
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
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