Xiaomeng Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaomeng Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with seven years of experience building scalable, low-latency systems across infrastructure and augmented reality. At Meta she focuses on AR platform engineering, while prior roles at Bloomberg saw her design high-throughput data distribution for BLPAPI serving millions of messages per second and modernize systems with microservices and ML-driven monitoring. She’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer comfortable with backend reliability, token/error handling and performance tuning—evidenced by contributions to the Data Transfer Project’s Google Photos importer. Xiaomeng blends production-grade systems thinking with cross-team influence, having served as a Software Infrastructure Champion advocating new architectures and tooling. Trained in software engineering (BUPT) and computer science (MSc, Bristol), she pairs rigorous academic grounding with hands-on delivery in demanding, real-time environments. She explicitly prefers non-finance roles, highlighting a deliberate focus on platform and product engineering outside the finance sector.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
error-handling10
exception-handling10
java10
oauth10
data-portability9
retry-logic9
data-transfer9
testing8
portability7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dtinit/data-transfer-project
May 2020 - Feb 2021
The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for platforms to build interoperable user data portability features. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 29 commits, 31 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Xiaomeng focused on back-end development tasks, primarily within the Google Photos integration, as evidenced by their work on exception handling, token refresh mechanisms, and refactoring to improve efficiency. They addressed issues related to user permissions, ensuring appropriate error messages and retry logic. Additionally, the user contributed to improving the stability and performance of the Google Photos importer and related tests.
datadata-portabilityonline-serviceparticipatingportability
facebookincubator/spark-state
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Facebook Spark AR State Management JS module in AR Library
Contributions:12 reviews, 24 commits, 31 PRs in 9 months
reactstate-managementjavascriptsparkfacebook
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