Zhiqiang Xiong
Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiqiang Xiong is a software engineer with nine years of experience building systems from embedded firmware to cloud services, currently working at DraftKings after a recent role as SDE II at Amazon Web Services. He brings a strong background in low-level C and STM32-based firmware for optical transceivers and has transitioned to large-scale application and cloud engineering, reflecting broad technical versatility. Zhiqiang holds two master's degrees—one in Computer Science from Kansas State University where he taught and built an automated C/C++ evaluation system—and another in Integrated Circuit Design, underscoring both software and hardware fluency. He has experience mentoring and teaching over 50 undergraduates, which complements his hands-on product work and makes him effective at knowledge transfer and code quality initiatives. Based in Malden, MA, he combines rigorous academic training with practical production experience across startups and hyperscale environments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4 at Kansas State UniversityMaster's degree, Integrated Circuit Design, 88.8/100, Master's degree, Integrated Circuit Design, 88.8/100 at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
foreign7
foreign-data-wrapper7
plsql5
twitter4
database4
nlp3
sql3
oracle3
postgresql3
mysql2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Johnsonxiong/Seed-Counter
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Johnsonxiong/traffic_KC_database
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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