Xiong Cao is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta with five years of professional experience and a strong academic foundation from Peking University (Physics) and Duke University (MS in Computer Engineering). His background blends rigorous research-oriented training—he was a PhD student at Peking University—with practical systems engineering at scale. At Meta he focuses on building reliable, high-performance software, drawing on cross-disciplinary strengths in physics and computer engineering to tackle complex infrastructure problems. Colleagues know him for translating academic rigor into production-ready designs and for a knack for simplifying tricky technical trade-offs. Based in the United States, he brings an analytic, research-minded approach to product engineering and system optimization.
4 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Duke University
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Peking University
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