# Xiaoyan Sun

> I have a masters degree in computer science and 15 years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on machine learning, mathematics, and server side solutions. tinyurl.com/sharonsun

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xiaoyansun

Looking to leverage my extensive knowledge of computer science to build backend, distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instrumental Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instrumental Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
- Senior Software Engineer on the backend / server team with a primary focus on handling big data latency concerns using Scala, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Redis, and ML integrations.
- Functioned as Workstream lead on the customer facing web application.

### Natural Language Processing And Web Engineer @ Awesomeopensource
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Jose
- I cofounded this startup which aimed to develop a topic extraction framework for enhancing open-source project discovery.
- Implemented statistical models and supervised machine learning (e.g., seq2seq).
- Implemented a natural language processing pipeline for corpus generation and topic extraction from millions of GitHub repositories.
- Evaluated algorithm performance using metrics such as precision and recall, F1 measure, and BLEU.

### Web Application Engineer @ Sina Corporation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018
- Web application engineer for Weibo and Sina.com.
- Transitioned from DART advertising system to Google(DFP) system.
- Developed full stack web applications using PHP, JavaScript, MySql, ect.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Sichuan Hwadee Information Technology Company Ltd
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
- Internship where I contributed to a development of a Hotel Information System.
- Implemented client and server code using C# (.NET, Windows Forms, ASP).


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Florida

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Hubei University of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sharonsun21

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Last updated: 2026-04-01