Jian Xu
Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Xu is a software engineer with 14 years of systems and kernel-level experience, currently working on MTIA software at Meta after a long tenure at Google where he optimized ML platform performance for GPU/TPU and drove ML hardware/software co-design. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from UC San Diego, where he co-created NOVA, a widely cited persistent-memory file system that delivered dramatic throughput and consistency gains and is available as open source. Jian’s background spans Linux kernel driver development (notably USB3.0 xHCI contributions at AMD) to large-scale storage and NVMM research, giving him rare depth across hardware, firmware, and cloud-scale software. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines research-grade systems design with production optimization expertise, and has repeatedly translated prototype ideas into measurable performance wins in industry settings.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diegohigh schoolMaster Electronic Engineering, Master Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (36)
filesystem10
porting10
python10
machine-learning10
linux10
volatile10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
dax10
neural-network10
non-volatile10
linux-kernel9
beagleboard8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Andiry/Linux-nova
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:122 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 1 year 5 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxnova
NVSL/PMFS-new
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Porting PMFS to the latest Linux kernel
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
linux-kernelporting
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