# Xiayang W.

> Software Engineer at Rippling

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

● Experience on building and delivering 24x7 high-scale api services
● Always have software quality in mind, being able to write highly testable code

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure @ Rippling
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Build the infrastructure for rippling app

### Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes Platform @ Salesforce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principle Software Engineer - Monitoring Cloud @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
●  Lead the design and implementation of Metrics/Log exporting services for cloudwatch on AWS env
●  Lead the adoption and development of OpenCensus Agent as a company wide metrics collection solution on k8s environment
●  Lead the design and implementation of log collection solution for the company wide k8s environment
●  Architect the metrics library v2 for the company wide monolith, greatly improved the performance and reduced resources usage
●  Designed and developed the monitoring system for the log collection pipeline which allowing the team to react to production issues very quickly

### Senior Software Engineer - Monitoring Cloud @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
●  Lead the design and implementation of the company wide log collection pipeline which collects and ships hundreds of TB log data from tens of thousands of nodes globally with strict SLA requirements on a daily basis
● Design the self-onboarding UX for the company-wide log collection pipeline
● Main maintainer of the company wide logging and metric collecting libraries which are in the critical path of the core monolith application

### Software Engineer - Yahoo Aabaco Small Business @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Lead the deployment and design of the new identity micro service which allows YSB to spin-off from Yahoo, involved technology including: SpringBoot, Docker, AWS, Twillio

### Software Engineer - MEP @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
●  Lead the design and implementation of the high performance second generation Newsfeed API services, which powered the Yahoo news/finance/sports mobile apps and yahoo partners, as well as its related ETL pipelines  at a global scale
●  Designed and implemented the serving api and its related ETL pipeline for the award winning Yahoo NewsDigest App
●  Major contributor of Yahoo weather data ingestion pipeline and v2 serving endpoint, significantly increased the service availability, 10x throughput improvement.
●  Participated in the development of Yahoo breaking news push notification service, which scaled to send notifications to APNS/GCM at a very high rate.
●  One of the major contributors of the Yahoo mobile app android version, designed and implemented the service and database layer of the app allowed it to have a very low crash rate.

### Software Enginner/Quality Engineer @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
● One of the major developers of the initial Yahoo Native App(Android), successfully launched the app in a timely schedule (within 2 months)
● Leads the test team for Yahoo Native App for both iOS and Android, responsibility including: design and define test cases, train manual testers, and develop testing tools and utilities
● In charge of the functional tests for the api services that powered the Yahoo Native Mobile App

### Software Engineer @ Propeld, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
● Data quality validation with Pig and Hadoop
● Development of the serving APIs and web UI with RoR and mongodb

### Freelancer software engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Provide software development/management services to small businesses, including
Linux system deployment, Web crawlers, Web Application building and backend service development.
Related technology including: RoR, Python, LAMP, Wordpress..etc.

### Technical Leader @ Taishan Itech Co. LTD
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
Lead the engineering team to provide OA solutions, which included software development, computer network deploymet, and ERP/POS system deployment for local business and schools

### Software Engineer @ Huawei
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Participated in the development of multiple J2EE based CRM systems for international telecom companies as well as internal tooling development

### Software Engineer @ Easelane shenzhen
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Lead the development of the airline ticket/hotel booking system for easelane. Technology involved including J2EE, struts, PostgreSQL


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree of Engineering in Automation
Harbin University of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xwu31415926

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Source: https://flows.cv/xiayang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xiayang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12