# Xinran Jiang

> Senior Engineer at Airbnb

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Large data systems, machine learning systems.

### Senior Software Developer @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
Worked on multi-tenant data storage layer in C++, data pipeline engine in Python, and frontend data representation layer in Typescript/Javascript.

### Software Engineer @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale. CA
• Fixed defects that caused product crash (core dump); debugged C++ memory corruption issues.
  • Investigated repeatability issue; dug into how parallel sorting of floating point numbers can be stable.
  • Participated in war rooms to win million dollar contracts; helped to reduce leakage power by 4%.
  • Built debugging tool into the product; significantly increased efficiency of analysis and debugging.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA
• Built an analysis command into the product; helped improve Quality of Results by 2% on average.
• Wrote analysis tools using Python scripts; modeled circuit data by bin-based logistic regression.
• Improved the product’s C++ code quality by refactoring issues such as memory leak, deadcode, etc.

### C++ project: a parallel string search engine @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Developed a parallel string search engine with 2x performance on 4-core machine using 8 threads.
  • Implemented Boyer-Moore search algorithm which runs 2% on average faster than KMP algorithm.
  • Built a parallel model with producers that reads in the text and consumers that does the searching.

### C++ project: a simulation of Buddy memory allocation system @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Simulated Buddy and Slab, a memory allocation system for Unix, using C++.
• Used a binary tree structure of used memory; did lazy memory compaction with little overhead.

### C++ project: GPU programming @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Used CUDA to program matrix multiplication, histogram and convolution operations on GPU.
• Optimized for speed-up by using memory coalescing, loop unrolling and avoiding false sharing.

### C++ project: a multi-threaded Linda system @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Implemented Linda, a concurrent programming model using Pthread in C++; constructed a shared,
     virtual and associative memory, a global ‘tuple space’, for several parallel threads to operate on.
  • Solved race condition and deadlock problems between threads using blocking and non-blocking calls.

### Java project: a learning software for kids at Chandler-Tripp school @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Developed a learning software (‘FunLearn’) for visually impaired kids at Chandler-Tripp school as a
     primary teaching tool in class; accommodate special user requests of GUI, contents and functionality.
 • Led a team of three and built a Model-View-Control system for the software using design patterns.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering
Santa Clara University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Analytical Finance
Lehigh University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Management in Financial Management
Renmin University of China
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### High School in General Studies
Chengdu Foreign Languages School
Jan 2002 – Jan 2008


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22