Lixing Dong
Principal Engineer at Linktree
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLixing Dong is a Principal Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building large-scale, high-throughput systems across both product and leadership roles. He has driven mobile app monetization at Google—serving tens of billions of ad impressions daily—and led engineering teams at Hacker Interstellar and as an SRE/manager at Google before joining Linktree. Comfortable at the intersection of infrastructure and product, he designs distributed services and load-balanced systems that operate at internet scale. Trained at Columbia (MSc) and Zhejiang University (B.Eng.), he combines rigorous academic foundations with hands-on execution in production environments. Recently focused on crypto, he brings a practical curiosity for emerging decentralized systems alongside deep expertise in adtech and platform reliability.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer science at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (33)
protocol-buffers9
serialization9
protobuf9
docker8
rpc8
storage8
protoc8
marshalling7
twitter7
twitter-api7
cloud-native7
twitter-api-v27
ceph7
etcd6
kubernetes6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Lexing/Kubenvoy
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Lexing/glog
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Leveled execution logs for Go
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 7 months
golangloggerlogginggologrus
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