Summary
Zixing Xin is a blockchain engineer and computational mathematician with eight years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and open-source blockchain software. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Purdue and has deep expertise in numerical linear algebra, high-performance computing (C/C++, Fortran, Go) and algorithmic techniques such as graph partitioning and low-rank compression that yielded a SIAM J. Scientific Computing publication and 40% memory savings in a solver. As a core developer of the widely used Go-Seele project and former team lead at SeeleTech, he has shipped Golang-based blockchain clients, VMs, p2p messaging, RPCs and capacity-scaling protocols that increased throughput by more than 100x. Currently at 0x Labs in the Bay Area, he combines rigorous research instincts with production engineering to tackle concurrency and scalability in decentralized systems. He also brings finance domain experience—having passed CFA Level I and interned in fixed income research—allowing him to bridge quantitative modeling and real-world trading/product constraints. Colleagues rely on him for mathematically driven optimizations and pragmatic, well-tested implementations in performance-critical code.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, applied mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, applied mathematics at Tongji University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), applied mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), applied mathematics at Purdue University
Chinese, English