# Stephen Xu

> Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stephenxu

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2021 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Arrcus, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States

### Technical Leader @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- ACI Multi-Pod/WAN Integration/Multi-Site design and development
- Fabric IS-IS Unicast/Multiast
- BGP/L2VPN EVPN

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Cisco Nexus-series switches key projects, focusing on Layer 3 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) design and development;
 - Multiple projects of Cisco's SDN product ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), focusing on model-driven configuration management, control plane routing protocols, fabric forwarding, VxLAN EVPN, multi-site/-fabric networking, etc.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Research Assistant @ University of New Mexico
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012
- Key research projects on routing and provisioning in multi-domain/multi-layer IP/MPLS networks and optical GMPLS networks;
 - Cyber-infrastructure survivability solutions for distributed network settings;
 - Reviewer/TPC member for various international journals/conferences;
 - Part-time teaching assistant for undergraduate computer engineering courses.

### Software Engineer/Development Project Lead @ Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 | Shanghai/Chengdu, China
- Led an R&D team for corporate NGN Development and Sustaining Project;
 - Conducted software/feature development for Alcatel’s core network switching product;
 - Provided on-site customer support, trouble-shooting and training programs.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Engineering
The University of New Mexico

### BE in Computer Commucations
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12