Xu Ning
Director Of Engineering, AI Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolXu Ning is a Director of Engineering leading Snap’s AI Platform, applying 15+ years of systems and ML engineering experience to power Ads, Discover, Spotlight, Maps and generative AI features. He has a proven track record building large-scale infrastructure products—from founding Uber’s Cherami messaging system and contributing to Cadence/Temporal, to shaping Michelangelo, Uber’s end-to-end ML platform. Xu blends research rigor (PhD in Systems Engineering) with product-focused execution, having led cross-site teams and delivered production services adopted broadly across organizations. His background spans datacenter traffic engineering at Facebook, global load balancing at Akamai, and entrepreneurial ventures in medical analytics and algorithmic trading, showing both depth and breadth. Based in Seattle, he is comfortable steering multi-year platform strategy while still engaging in technical design and open-source collaboration. A detail that surprises peers: he transitions smoothly between low-level distributed systems design and high-level ML platform strategy, enabling teams to move models from prototype to production at scale.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Automation, Bachelor Automation at Tsinghua UniversityPhD Systems Engineering, PhD Systems Engineering at Boston University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (1)
haskell6
Github contributions (2)
xuning28/FDA_project_group_XN
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 month
memberscai
xuning28/Temp
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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