# Bicheng Xu > Senior Software Engineer at Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bicheng ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area YouTube Playlists team ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area YouTube Channels and Playlists Team L3 - SWE II: 2019 - 2021 L4 - SWE III: 2021 - 2023 ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington Teaching Assistant for CS 5006 – Algorithms CS 5007 – Computer Systems ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, CA Marketing Publishing Platform (PayPal.com guest experience): • Worked effectively in a cross-functional team of designers, PMs and software engineers • Automated package release process and facilitated efficient communication with APAC regional teams • Optimized PayPal homepage loading time from 16s down to 6s under 3G network in India • Refactored Paypal's internal React page compiler and boosted its performance by 700% • Refactored over 100 shared react components used by PayPal's websites into a NPM package and deployed to production ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### UC San Diego Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bicheng-xu --- Source: https://flows.cv/bicheng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bicheng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22