Xiaojian Zhou
Principal Engineer at Broadcom Software
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaojian Zhou is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems, currently based in Beaverton, Oregon and working at Broadcom Software. He has a long track record across VMware, Pivotal/EMC and earlier roles, shaping fast-data and big-data fabrics and rising through senior technical ranks. Xiaojian combines deep Java and systems expertise with production-facing design work—evidenced by contributions to Apache Geode where he implemented Lucene-based index region functionality and low-level file/region plumbing. He is comfortable operating at the intersection of core infrastructure and application needs, delivering robust indexing and storage features that improve query performance. Educated at Tsinghua and Peking University, he brings rigorous academic foundations to pragmatic engineering decisions. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who surfaces subtle architectural trade-offs and drives them to production.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Peking UniversityMaster Computer, Master Computer at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
caching10
cachemanager10
geode10
indexing10
java10
fileio9
filesystem9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Aug 2015 - Jun 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:197 reviews, 254 commits, 316 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Xiaojian implemented features related to index region functionality within the Apache Geode project. The contributions involve modifying code in the Java language and interacting with core Geode features like the cache and file system to implement indexing within the database's framework. Specific work includes creating region directories, file systems, and file input streams. The user also added new classes such as LuceneIndexImpl and refined tests for the Lucene indexing implementation.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
gesterzhou/lucene_example
May 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 107 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
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