Xin
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarXin He is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with eight years of hands-on experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems at Google. He has progressed through engineering and tech lead roles to senior staff, blending backend systems design with DevOps practices and a focus on reliability and load balancing. Xin is an active contributor to the high-profile Envoy proxy project, where he has modified core routing, retry, and hashing behaviors and improved testing and build infrastructure. With an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia and a background in telecommunications, he brings both rigorous academic grounding and practical expertise in cloud-native networking. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance performance, testability, and operational simplicity.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
load-balancing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
testing10
build-automation9
upstream9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:326 reviews, 50 commits, 80 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily contributes to the Envoy proxy project, making changes to back-end components and configuration files. Their work involves modifying core functionalities like retry policies, request hashing, and load balancing. Furthermore, they contribute to the testing infrastructure and build process with commits touching on tests.
cloud-nativeproxyrocket-shipscarsmore-cats
stevenzzzz/envoy
Jun 2018 - Jul 2026
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:22 PRs, 890 pushes, 146 branches in 8 years 2 months
cppservice-proxyproxy
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