Xiaoxi Wang
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolXiaoxi Wang is a software engineer based in Irvine, California with five years of experience focused on databases and cloud-native distributed systems. At Snowflake she works on FoundationDB control and data planes—implementing data shard management, replication, flow control, and log streaming—building tools for tracing and testing that keep large multi-tenant deployments reliable. Her research background includes contributions to NewSQL, RDBMS and big-data platforms, a SIGMOD paper on large-scale graph processing, and core commits to the open-source FoundationDB project, highlighting low-level system design expertise. She holds a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine and a 3.92 BS from Sun Yat-sen University, and has taught database and distributed systems courses as a TA. Known for a practical, disciplined approach (“Don’t be lazy”), she blends rigorous academic research with production-grade engineering to improve QoS and scalability in complex storage systems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information and computing science, 3.92/4.0, Bachelor of Science, Information and computing science, 3.92/4.0 at Sun Yat-sen UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of California IrvineSenior Highschool Student, General Studies, Senior Highschool Student, General Studies at Guiyang No.1 High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database10
system-design9
data-structure9
data-structures9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:441 reviews, 984 commits, 398 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiaoxi contributed primarily to the FoundationDB's core components. The commits focus on core logic and implementation details, adding features, and fixing storage metadata issues. The user's work involves low-level system design and likely requires a strong understanding of distributed systems and database internals.
foundationdbkey-value-storetransactionaldistributed-database
sfc-gh-xwang/foundationdb
Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:9 PRs, 761 pushes, 306 branches in 3 years 4 months
foundationdbkey-value-store
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