Xin Jia
Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Jia is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in distributed, low-latency, ACID-compliant databases and large-scale storage systems. Currently working on Google Spanner in Cambridge, MA, he previously led database engineering at Alibaba Cloud and VoltDB, driving features from Jepsen-tested transactions to NVM-backed larger-than-memory architectures. He combines hands-on system design, performance benchmarking, and SQL/query optimization with experience managing cross-functional teams and long-running strategic projects. His academic work at Brown contributed MapReduce-style transaction execution to H-Store, reflecting a strong research-to-production trajectory. Xin is drawn to high-availability, consistency, and operationally self-maintained systems—he’s actively recruiting engineers who want to tackle internet-scale database challenges. An understated strength is his track record of turning deep correctness testing (e.g., Jepsen) into practical improvements for production databases.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brown UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Tianjin University
Github Skills (16)
voltdb10
yahoo9
benchmark8
benchmarking8
spanner6
database5
kubernetes5
jepsen3
tidb3
documentation2
transactional2
olap1
calculator1
in-memory-database1
oltp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xinjiacs/ycsb-0.1.4
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
xinjiacs/voltdb
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
VoltDB
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 branch in 1 day
voltdbdata-storagedatabase-access
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