Xiaoyi Cao
Senior Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolXiaoyi Cao is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 12 years of experience bridging full-stack engineering and computational biology. He earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology and applied that expertise to develop production-grade computational models and services for epigenomic and chromatin analysis at UC San Diego. Proficient in Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Python, SQL, and Linux, he builds scalable, data-driven systems and brings statistical rigor to software design. His career blends research-grade bioinformatics with industry-scale product development, enabling him to translate complex genomic algorithms into reliable services. Based in California, he combines deep domain knowledge with hands-on engineering to solve interdisciplinary problems that sit at the intersection of biotech and cloud-native software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biophysics and Computational biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biophysics and Computational biology at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology/Biological Sciences General at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
visualization10
visual-analytics10
genomics-visualization10
html6
chrome6
chai6
slice6
chrome-extension6
regex6
unit-testing6
browser5
genome4
polymer3
bioinformatics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
caoxiaoyi03/give-tree
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Node implementation of interval-tree based cache data structures: GIVE Oak Tree and GIVE Pine Tree
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 5 months
crosswordjavascriptintervalpinenodejs
Zhong-Lab-UCSD/Genomic-Interactive-Visualization-Engine
Dec 2013 - Nov 2019
Genomic Interactive Visualization Engine
Contributions:3 releases, 668 commits, 100 PRs in 6 years
interactive-visualizationgenomics-visualizationvisual-analyticsepigenetic-datajavascript
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