# Xinnan Wen

> Software Engineer at Figma; Ex-Googler

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xinnan

Staff Software Engineer. Interested in Service Mesh, k8s, distributed system, AI/ML Infra

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present
networking
k8s

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
1. Open Source Service Mesh Istio & Kubernetes: https://github.com/istio/istio
2. Anthos Service Mesh

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
1. Worked on building the Alexa cloud service.
2. Focus on Alexa system backend. Worked on building notifications features

### Software Engineer Intern @ Pocket Gems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in backend server team, building scalable web services for users

1. Optimized the crash reports grouping mechanism, using job aggregation pattern, shareded counter and pull taskqueue, improved process speed by 10 times by avoiding concurrent writing transaction failure in taskqueue

2. Created a bulk notification tools for PMs to send and manage multiple customized message to different user groups

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Teaching Assistant for Signal Processing

Generated homework solution, Led two lab sections every two weeks.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Schneider Electric
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
1. Worked on developing a cloud-based remote energy management platform of buildings and industries. The system collects a large amount of real time data and storages them in DynamoDB
2. Ran data analysis script to analyze data and provided business insights to big business clients.
3. Deployed the code for running on Amazon AWS, wrote the MapReduce Job in Java for data preprocessing and data transfer between the DynamoDB and HDFS.
4. Utilized Hadoop framework to transfer, preprocess and calculate the large amount of data.

### Marketing Intern @ Porsche
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
-Organized a series of customer loyalty promotion activities, including test drive event, media gathering and    Porsche Golf Game
-Participated in Porsche Macan Launch follow-up event and kept close relationship with media company
-Collected public relation data and report and wrote reports for local Dealer Manager


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering
Zhejiang University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xinnan-wen-b8486098

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Last updated: 2026-03-29