# Funing Xu

> Senior Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/funingxu

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Workspace Content Platform

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building system to scale millions of LinkedIn jobs, revamp jobs pipeline.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
As part of the jobs matching team, I’m working on projects that help matching job seekers with companies.  
Using Samza Beam to send millions of job notifications.

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Returning to Salary team after the internship, I had the fortune to work with some amazing engineers, PMs, designers and managers on nearly every salary related project to bring greater compensation transparency to both job seekers and companies. 

As a full stack engineer, I had worked on projects including but not limited to backend, frontend and offline. Here are some selective projects:
- Jobs that pay you more money flavor for jobs 
  The first feature that provides individual, personalized salary insight. The flavor signals a job pays you more money than what you gave to us.

- Salary Free-From-Search 
   One of the two engineers built an end-to-end search vertical (from document indexing to UI), allowing members to explore tens of millions of salary insights at ease.

- Salary on Profile Dashboard 
   Built an entry point that gives members easy access to unlock and see salary information personalized to their career.

Technologies:  
Languages: Java, JavaScript and Pig. 
Framework/Platform: Ember.js, Play, Rest.li, Kafka, Samza, Hadoop and OffSpring. 
Tools: Gradle, VS-Code, and IntelliJ.

### Software Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Worked on LinkedIn Salary!

### Software Engineer Intern @ Medtronic
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Developing software for Reveal LINQ, an implantable heart monitoring device.

### Research Assistant @ Grouplens Research
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Doing research in recommender system and maintaining MovieLens.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
University of Minnesota

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/funingxu

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Last updated: 2026-04-05