Summary
Zhekai Xing is a Senior Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building reliable systems at scale, currently driving engineering work at Samsara after progressive roles there since 2018. With a background in integrated circuit engineering and verification from Shanghai Jiao Tong and Columbia, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to software problems—useful for performance-sensitive and embedded-edge systems. His early verification work at NVIDIA and Cisco underpins a disciplined approach to testing, quality, and systems design. Comfortable moving between low-level engineering and cloud-scale product development, he combines deep technical rigor with pragmatic delivery in fast-moving teams. Notably, his career path reflects deliberate cross-domain growth from ASIC verification into production software engineering, giving him a rare blend of silicon-to-cloud experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Integrated Circuit Engineering, Master's degree, Integrated Circuit Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Information Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese