Summary
Zhaokai Xu is an AI engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building backend systems, AI platforms, and cloud infrastructure across startups and large tech firms. He led integrations for LLM access and scaled Core AI services at eBay, and previously architected microservices and AWS provisioning for VMware’s hybrid cloud platform. His background spans autonomous-vehicle and compute-cluster teams (Pony.ai, TuSimple, Uber) and includes full-stack and service-infra work, giving him a broad systems perspective from edge to cloud. Currently at cStor, he focuses on AI cloud compute, blending hands-on engineering with production-grade scalability. A UCSD grad who also trained in mechanical engineering at Waseda, he often bridges hardware-aware thinking with software-first AI infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
学士 Machanial Enginneer, 学士 Machanial Enginneer at Waseda University
高中学历 义务教育, 高中学历 义务教育 at The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University
Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, English