Xiaoxiong Lu
Staff Software Engineer at Otter.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolXiaoxiong Lu is a Staff Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building backend infrastructure, growth systems, and data-driven products. He has led teams and launched large-scale identity and authentication platforms at Google—designing systems that scaled from 1 QPS to 50k QPS and supported millions of apps and billions of accounts—and later applied that product-focused engineering to TikTok and now Otter.ai. Comfortable hiring and growing senior engineering teams, he combines hands-on backend architecture with a strong emphasis on developer experience and operational scalability. With an MS from Stanford and roots in mechanical engineering, he brings a methodical, cross-disciplinary approach to solving complex distributed systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster of Science - MS Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (129)
tunnel10
reverse-proxy10
firewall10
maven-plugin10
proxy10
security10
vulnerability-detection10
jenkins-plugin10
gradle-plugin10
p2p10
javascript10
fingerprint10
wechat10
ant-task10
api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SuperXiaoxiong/smartools
Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
SuperXiaoxiong/WeixinBot
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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