Xin Zhang
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Zhang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems and user-facing products, currently on the engineering team at Figma after a multi-year tenure at Cockroach Labs. They have strong backend roots—working on CockroachDB and earlier Scala and C++ projects—and have shipped frontend features at Meta and EdTech startups, giving them a full-stack perspective. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, Xin pairs systems-level rigor with practical product sensibilities across databases, GraphQL/React, and cloud services. Notably, a longtime affinity for typing games hints at fast, accurate coding and a playful attention to input-driven UX details.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate InstituteB.Cs, Computer Science, B.Cs, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, Shanghainese
Stackoverflow
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813reached
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
nosql10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
mongodb-database10
arangodb10
go10
sql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
mongodb10
sql-database10
database10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xinhaoz/cockroach
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1838 pushes, 844 branches in 3 years 9 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
uwblueprint/plasta
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
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Contributions:122 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
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