# Xianchen Meng

> Software Engineer at Google - Youtube Premium

Location: Millbrae, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xianchen

Achieved Master's Degree in Computer Science from College of William & Mary (GPA 3.8) with strong programming, algorithmand system design, mathematical skills and knowledge in Computer Science area. 5 years+ of working experience in Python, Javascript, Node.js, Java in broad areas such as web development, security, mobile apps, system integration etc. As a fullstack engineer. Solid frontend framework knowledge such as React.js, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap etc. Backend framework such as Express.js, Spring boot, Tornado etc. SQL & Non-SQL Databases such as Postgres, Mysql, Redis, Moongodb etc. Project dependencies management tools such as Yarn, Npm, Gradle, Maven, Pipenv etc. Industry infrastructure tools such as Docker, Terraform, Vault, AWS SAM etc. And full knowledge and experience on AWS cloud platform EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, S3

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States
Adding values for Youtube Premium member

● Led Youtube Premium Frontend development
● Youtube Premium Member Hub
● Youtube Premium Offer Program
● Youtube Premium Achievement System
● Youtube Premium Offline Recommendation System

If you are a Youtube Premium member, check out my work: https://www.youtube.com/premium_benefits

### Senior Software Engineer @ Caspar.ai
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City
Caspar.ai - Immersive Smart Home Living Experiences

● Led integration of Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple Homekit into main smart home product and built Caspar Oauth2.0 service, serving thousands of resident apartments and model units
● Deployed Python 3 Caspar Alexa skill in serverless AWS Lambda service to fulfill the Alexa requests
● Developed ACL based Auth microservice in Node.js, which serves three Client-facing web apps
● Developed RESTful Remote Control APIs in Node.js for Android / IOS App and 3rd party clients
● Built gRPC and NATS infrastructure in Python 3 for the agents running on Caspar Hub to communicate with each other via Protobuf and Pub/Sub mechanism
● Created multiple Python 2/Python 3 based apps that processed sensing data and received users’ interactions to activate smart devices, running in thousands of resident apartments and model units
● Dockerized existing and new web services and deployed them to AWS with Terraform
● Set up and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for part of testing and production codebases
● Improved and managed Vault cluster with Consul and S3 as storage backend for key store management
● Managed Vault Roles to isolate the permissions for different teams, people and machines

### Research Assistant @ William & Mary
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Williamsburg
Developed a static analysis tool in Java to automatically analyze the implicit service invocation, hence to help identify the main reasons for its popular usage in Apps 
Analyzed 3924 Apps using the tool to find 24.2% vulnerable candidates with potential to crash by implicit service invocation 
Designed and implemented an automatically resolving tool with reverse engineering technique, which achieved 100% successful rate on removing the defects

### Software Engineer Intern @ Shanghai Pugong environmental protection technology co., LTD
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | 中国 上海市区
Worked with the team to develop a system to automatically log and monitor status of smart meters in a large metropolitan area, improved the maintenance efficiency 
Built the component to log and collect metrics data from smart meters and send them to database(Java)
Designed the data model and create schemas in SQL Server to help store and apply various queries on the collected data more efficiently 
Designed and implemented the interactive client application using AWT(Java), to provide flexible visualization of the generated reports in different kinds 
Performed integration test of the system on smart meters from multiple locations to ensure the reliability


## Education
### Master degree in Computer Science
William & Mary

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Beihang University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xianchen-meng-a7a141115

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Last updated: 2026-04-05