# Jianjian Xie > Working on Data & AI Infrastructure Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jianjian Data & AI Infrastructure Engineer. Also Full-stack machine learning engineer with significant data science experience. Email: jja725@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake Jan 2024 – Present Query Compiler/Optimizer ### Staff Software Engineer @ Alluxio Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 • Led the collaboration with Presto & Trino to help build better OLAP system • Building cloud-native data access solution with Alluxio Fsspec, which overcomes I/O challenges in ML pipelines and improves GPU utilization to 90%+ • Collaborate with many open source users on the adoption of Alluxio to improve Data analytics (Presto & Trino) & AI (Ray & Pytorch) performance and cost efficiency Checkout these collaborations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05962 https://prestodb.io/prestocon-day/agenda/#leveraging-ttl https://www.uber.com/blog/optimizing-hdfs-with-datanode-local-cache/ https://www.uber.com/blog/speed-up-presto-with-alluxio-local-cache/ ### Research Engineer, Machine learning @ Indeed.com Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 Build Budget recommendation service which supports the core business of Indeed ### Data Scientist and Data Engineer @ Scry Analytics Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Designing and develop end-to-end architecture and machine learning algorithms ### Data Science Competition Medal winner @ Kaggle Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Having fun with machine learning ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) Columbia University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jianjian-xie --- Source: https://flows.cv/jianjian JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jianjian/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05