Xudong Xiao
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXudong Xiao is a software engineer and UIUC CS student (B.S. expected Aug 2025) with eight years of practical experience delivering high-performance cloud and systems tooling. His internships at Amazon and DRW demonstrate a knack for performance tuning and automation—e.g., cutting a 20TB pipeline from 2 hours to 10 minutes and reducing Alexa test worker CPU from 99% to 5%. He has built serverless validation tools and LLM-powered testing modules, driven substantial adoption among engineers, and led secure migrations of legacy test suites. Proficient in AWS, Java, and Kotlin, he focuses on scalable cloud infrastructure, asynchronous I/O, and system reliability. Based in Champaign, IL, he combines strong academic rigor (3.9 GPA) with hands-on impact and a particular talent for finding subtle algorithmic and operational bottlenecks.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (22)
authentication8
credential-storage8
azure-repos7
gitlab7
azure-devops7
pigeon7
hosting7
bitbucket6
kotlin6
storage6
java6
chatbot5
cross-platform5
github5
minecraft5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willbe03/pigeon-bot-console
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
MythSama/pigeonBot
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
A QQ Bot for Star/ACG Pigeon Fan Sub Group
Contributions:89 commits, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 5 months
botqq-botacgpigeon
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