Summary
Zefan Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across infrastructure and governance domains. He has driven data protection and policy enforcement at Google and now focuses on Trust & Safety engineering at Databricks, applying deep systems and compliance knowledge to protect user and regulatory-sensitive data. His background spans networking and virtualized dataplane work (P4, eBPF, VXLAN) as well as high-performance C/C++ systems from earlier roles in cloud networking and finance. Comfortable in both kernel and distributed service layers, he blends low-level performance engineering with product-minded security controls. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs rigorous technical craftsmanship with a persistent curiosity — reflected in a GitHub motto that reads, “在这广阔的天空里,追寻梦想吧,” signaling a long-term drive to explore and build.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese