Yi Xie
Engineering Manager at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Xie is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building and leading teams across cloud and consumer entertainment platforms, currently at Meta after managing Google Cloud’s Ordering Platform and multiple personalization and search teams at HBO. He blends strong distributed-systems and cloud expertise (AWS, Azure) with pragmatic Agile/Scrum leadership to deliver user-facing features at scale and reduce operational burden. A hands-on former senior staff engineer, he’s shipped streaming, catalog ingestion, and engagement features for major streaming apps and led backend services for high-profile gaming and platform projects at Microsoft. An active iOS contributor in notable open-source projects like the ppsspp PSP emulator and the osu! framework, he brings low-level mobile input experience (external keyboard, raw key handling, external-display UX) that informs better cross-device product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityBeijing NO. 4 high school
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
ios10
swift10
uikit10
ps10
emulation10
user-input10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
oso8
computer-vision6
appstore6
image-scaling6
gpu6
graphic6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hrydgard/ppsspp
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues. For discussion use the forums at forums.ppsspp.org.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the iOS version of the PSP emulator, focusing on features related to smart keyboard input and external display support. They implemented keyboard mapping for smart keyboards, enabling users to control the emulator with external keyboards. Furthermore, the user made several changes to manage the UI on external displays, including auto-switching and handling overscan compensation to improve the user experience.
emulatorsppssppemulatorwindowscpp
ppy/osu-framework
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
A game framework written with osu! in mind.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Yi's contributions primarily focus on implementing raw keyboard input functionality for iOS within the osu! framework. They developed an `IOSRawKeyboardHandler` to handle raw keyboard input and integrated it into the existing input handling system. The user also modified `GameUIApplication` to correctly check the iOS version and pass key events, while also blocking arrow keys. The changes include mapping keys on the standard 104-key keyboard.
game-frameworksgameosumindgame-framework
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