Xuetong Sun
Director, Partnership Management at Circle
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolXuetong Sun is a partnership and GTM leader with 10 years' experience at the intersection of business, technology and culture, currently directing Partnership Management at Circle in Singapore. She has a strong track record building commercial teams and ecosystems across Greater China and APAC at companies like Redis, Stripe and Deel, consistently over-performing targets and onboarding major enterprise clients. A founder and advisor, she blends hands-on GTM strategy, cross-functional program execution and C-level stakeholder engagement to scale fintech and SaaS businesses. Unusually for a sales leader, Xuetong contributes technical fixes and performance improvements to prominent open-source in-memory database projects like Redis and KeyDB, showing deep familiarity with backend systems and memory optimization. Her background spans payments, adtech and product-led growth, and she leverages travel and cultural fluency to unlock regional partnerships. Pragmatic, technical and networked, she thrives where commercial strategy meets engineering constraints.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Advertising, Bachelor's Degree Advertising at Communication University of ChinaBachelor's Degree Fashion Marketing, Bachelor's Degree Fashion Marketing at University of SouthamptonErasmus Exchange International Branding and Marketing, Erasmus Exchange International Branding and Marketing at VIA University CollegeThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
algorithms10
debug10
key-value-store10
redis10
memory-management10
databases10
c1110
data-structure10
c1710
performance-optimization10
hashtable10
data-structures10
database10
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
redis/redis
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2310 reviews, 87 commits, 379 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Xuetong primarily contributed to the Redis codebase by addressing a variety of issues, including fixing typos in comments and log messages, optimizing code, and improving error handling. Their work involved modifying core components such as the database, lists, hashes, and stream processing. The user also worked on performance improvements related to bit operations and general memory management within the database.
memorystreamsin-memory-databasememory-databasedata-model
Snapchat/KeyDB
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
A Multithreaded Fork of Redis
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Xuetong primarily contributed to the KeyDB project by addressing various issues related to code quality, bug fixes, and optimizations. Their work involved fixing typos in comments and log messages, optimizing code in the adlist.c file, and fixing server.dirty increments. Furthermore, they improved the code for commands such as BITOP, SELECT, MOVE, and COPY, focusing on performance and range checks. Their contributions also included enhancing the random distribution validation.
redisscaleleveldbgeohashredis-server
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