Gary Xia
Co-Founder at Heyo Computer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Xia is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 10+ years building devops, cloud, and network software across startups and large tech companies. As Co-Founder of Heyo Computer he’s focused on sandbox VMs for agentic workflows, blending product thinking with low-level systems engineering. His background spans languages and domains—from Python and Go to C/C++—and includes platform and SRE work at Uber Freight and LinkedIn, where he improved CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Previously he led large engineering efforts at Huawei (200‑engineer programs, Terraform provider development, and Jepsen-style testing) and contributed early innovations in remote display at Citrix and conferencing at Webex. Gary pairs hands-on coding with architecture and operational rigor, and he often surfaces non-obvious reliability wins by instrumenting systems and automating detection/mitigation. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep distributed-systems expertise.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (4)
jepsen5
distributed-systems3
terraform3
fault-injection2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
gator1/terraform-provider-opentelekomcloud
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Terraform opentelekomcloud provider
Contributions:56 commits in 2 months
terraform
gator1/jepsen
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Clone of aphyr's jepsen, might make some experiment changes
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
jepsen
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