Xin Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building robust back-end systems and distributed services, currently contributing to Microsoft from Alpharetta, Georgia. He has a strong background in database-driven architectures and reliability engineering—evident from his work improving MongoDB aggregation queries, adding retry mechanisms, and handling collection lifecycle in the high-profile microsoft/FluidFramework project for real-time collaboration. His career spans fintech, trading systems, and cloud platforms at companies like VMware, Kabbage, and Eze Software, where he also drove CI/CD, KPI instrumentation, and agile team practices. Xin combines hands-on C#, TSQL, and server-side expertise with practical leadership—he has served as a volunteer scrum master and led onboarding and release governance across teams. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Emory University and is known for tackling the hardest technical tasks and turning them into shared team capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Emory UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at East China University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (16)
databases10
administration10
database-administration10
mongodb10
back-end-development10
database-design10
mongodb-database10
database10
api8
distributed-systems8
apidoc8
distribute7
collaboration7
fluid-framework6
microsoft6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:433 reviews, 11 commits, 94 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily contributed to back-end services, focusing on database interactions and service logic. They refactored and improved database queries, specifically related to aggregation and finding data. They also added features for dropping collections and implemented retry mechanisms, demonstrating a focus on robustness and system stability within the back-end infrastructure. The user worked with MongoDB and related server-side components.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
zhangxin511/FluidFramework
May 2022 - Sep 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:98 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 4 months
distributedrealtimeweb-applicationswebsocketstateful
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