Zi-xun Ai
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZi-xun Ai is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems, currently at Snowflake in Austin. He has shipped serverless and event-driven platforms at ByteDance and AWS Lambda, focusing on scalable compute, lifecycle management, and Kubernetes-powered workloads. Trained at UC Irvine (CS & Political Science, 3.916 GPA) and LSE (Master in Management), he blends technical rigor with a broader perspective on systems and policy. A world traveler and self-described garage political scientist, he brings curiosity and cross-cultural insight to engineering problems. His background spans fast-moving product environments and highly distributed infrastructure, with hands-on experience enabling autoscaling from zero to hundreds of thousands of instances. Zi-xun’s mix of cloud systems expertise and interdisciplinary thinking makes him adept at turning complex distributed requirements into reliable, production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tsinghua International SchoolLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Science in Computer Science; Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, GPA: 3.916, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, GPA: 3.916 at University of California, Irvine
Chinese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (20)
esoteric-language9
rust9
compiler8
standard-library8
go-http8
rust-lang8
programming-language7
crate7
rust-language7
microservices6
high-performance6
garbage-collection6
allocator6
http-server6
http6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mingh2/SurvivalOfTheFittest
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:121 commits, 7 PRs, 101 pushes in 1 month
Ai-Zixun/PortfolioZixunAi
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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