# Xiaosheng Wu

> Software Engineer at Confluent

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xiaosheng

Software Engineer (Real-time Data Infrastructure and Stream Processing)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Cloud Data and Events

### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware Carbon Black
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Design and build a real-time processing data pipeline from scratch with Apache Flink.
• Collaborate with the DS team to build an ML inference pipeline for real-time inference

### Member Of Technical Staff III @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Design and build features on various cloud related products across different teams. I worked on both backend and frontend as a full-stack developer.

Main focus: Cloud SaaS platform, resource management, resource provision.

### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA, United States
Fullstack and backend development in the cloud automation team under cloud management business unit.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
• Implemented and shipped release features for reporting services. As the main project, designed and implemented an "Enter Data" extension in the SQL server report builder with good quality.
• Prepared and improved supportability artifacts such as documentation for the project and the
team.
• Suggested and improved report builder for better customer experience.

### Software Engineer Internship @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Created a distributed web application independently using JavaScript, HTML, Node.js and
MySQL
• Collaborated with IBM Quantum Computing Team to deploy and test the application on
multiple lab computers as a distributed system to assist researchers and engineers
• Implemented multiple features including security authorization and data visualization tools
• Optimized the application algorithm to improve performance and scalability (the program
runs 5 times faster after the optimization and can be easily deployed on multiple machines)

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
IBM is interested in R&D for future cognitive computing systems. To that end, C3SR is a collaboration between several Illinois ECE faculty and IBM. C3SR focuses on knowledge generation, creativity, and systems architecture. Our piece, lead by Professor Wen-mei Hwu, falls under the systems umbrella. Our contributions will be:
• Understand communication and computation patterns present in cognitive computing workloads by developing a few representative applications 
• Create a "Cognitive Application Builder"
• Figure out what accelerators we need for different application components

### Software Engineer Internship @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
• Worked as part of the accelerator platforms team under the supervision of Dr.Sameh Asaad
• Implemented a framework for flexible Bluetooth-based OBD support in Android apps, in the
  field of IoT for automotive and next-gen telematics/Usage-Based Insurance
• Developed extensions to the open source Pires library (https://github.com/pires/obd-java-api)

### ECE317 Laboratory Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Provide 20+ business major students with guidance on how to use electrical laboratory equipments.
• Grade lab reports

### ECE110 Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
• Lead a group of 40+ freshmen students to explore their interests in engineering by completing Honor Projects and engineering reports and earn honor credit for James Scholar Honor Program
• Provide 20+ students with guidance on what programming language best suits their projects, help students make design algorithms and debug code
• Support the instruction and hold office hour for a 480+ students class to help students solve homework problems and exam questions
• Assist the chief undergraduate academic advisor in developing lesson plans, support materials and daily schedules for the introductory engineering course


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC Irvine

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xiaosheng-wu-4482b281

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Last updated: 2026-04-11