Xin Wei
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Wei is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building large-scale backend systems, ML infrastructure, and full-stack products at Google and formerly at Twitter and Firebase. He specializes in ML governance, lineage, and personalization—owning data pipelines, model training/evaluation infrastructure, and production serving that powered a game with millions of DAUs and boosted ad revenue by 15%. Xin combines frontend chops (TypeScript, Angular) with heavy backend and data engineering expertise (map-reduce pipelines, SQL, Bayesian and frequentist analysis) and holds a patent for a personalization service he helped design. An active contributor to Firebase samples on GitHub, he’s implemented server-side image generation, React SSR, and Crashlytics notification integrations, showing a practical focus on observability and integrations. Outside work he’s a self-described “caffeine-based life-form” who channels curiosity into hiking, snowboarding, food adventures and concert-going—bringing both product sensibility and a developer-first mindset to complex engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Homestead High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
azure-functions10
google-cloud-functions10
firebase-cloud-functions10
webpack10
ibm-cloud-functions10
nodejs10
firebase10
react10
faas9
nodemailer9
server-side-rendering9
serverless9
slack8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/functions-samples
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Collection of sample apps showcasing popular use cases using Cloud Functions for Firebase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily contributed to the Firebase Cloud Functions samples, focusing on integrations with various services. They implemented new functionality for server-side image generation and server-side rendering of a React application. Furthermore, the user added Crashlytics integration samples, including email, Slack, and Jira notifications, demonstrating a focus on monitoring and alerting. They also updated existing samples and refactored code for clarity and efficiency.
casesfaas-platformuse-casessample-appsfirestore
trekforever/firebase-tools
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
firebasecommand-line-tools
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