# Zili Xiang

> Software Engineer at Nuro

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

Software Engineer at IBM. Cornell University Master Graduate, proficient in Java, Python, Web Development, etc.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer III @ MongoDB
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Blue Bell, PA

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Developed SOAP API to expand the capability of an MVC model based management system
• Implemented concurrent programs with zookeeper based distributed lock management
• Improved front end experience by implementing asynchronous requests with Ajax
• Maintained business data with Oracle DB and managed DDL with a migration system
• Reduced memory utilization on a page by up to 75% by optimizing memory leaking code
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### Research Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Ithaca, NY
- Developed tools to monitor Twitter stream and built ngram model based on stream data with mongoDB
- Implemented and optimized bidirectional BFS for social networks to find shortest paths between users in CPython
- Implemented Yen’s k shortest path algorithm to test the robustness of connections on social networks

### Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ithaca, New York Area
- Held weekly office hours helping with debugging JavaScript, PHP and SQL
- Prepared weekly discussion and taught back-end technologies (SQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and HTML)


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Information Science
Cornell University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Landscape Architecture
Cornell University

### Lanscape Architecture
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zili-xiang-31a59890
- Website: https://zilixiang.me
- Website: https://github.com/zxiang77
- Website: https://stackoverflow.com/users/5487627/peter-paul

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Last updated: 2026-04-01