Xuyang Kang

Email: xuyangkang@gmail.com | Location: London, UK

Professional Summary

I'm a generalist software engineer with 10+ years of experience in backend engineering, data pipeline and DevOps/SRE. My current focus has been on programmatically measuring the adherence to best SRE practices.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google UK | Oct 2022 - Present

Working as individual contributor that identifies and solves problems, and effectively communicates the solution.

  • Programmatically measuring the adherence to best SRE practices
  • Maintained and improved the reliability of Ads PMax campaign
  • Maintained the reliability of Ads Build pipeline and data
  • Participated in 7x12 on-call

Senior Software Engineer

DoorDash Japan | Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

Led a team of developers and delivering key features to drive the growth of DoorDash's APAC business.

  • Launched DashPass annual subscription in Australia.
  • Launched AfterPay - DashPass partnership
  • Improved Search and A/B test in Japan

Software Engineer, Tech Lead

ExaWizards | July 2019 - Sep 2021

Led a team of developers in building the CompanySearch service.

  • Built the first version from a proof of concept (PoC) and delivered to our partner.
  • Established a subteam to productionlize the data pipeline and support the researchers.
  • Designed and implemented the user management subsystem to scale the service for public use.
  • Introduced Elasticsearch to enable text search and filter functionality.
  • Scaled Elasticsearch to meet the demands of public use.
  • Defined software engineering best practice.

Software Engineer

Indeed Japan | Nov 2017 - July 2019

Maintained Indeed's private cloud.

Software Engineer

Google | Oct 2013 - Oct 2017

Built cool projects:

  • Street View
  • Android Studio
  • YouTube Music(Formly Google Play Music)
  • Golang

Education

Master of Science in High Performance Computing with Data Science

University of Edinburgh | 2023 -

Part-time Distance Learning

Master of Science in Computer Science with Data Analytics

University of York | Graduated: 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Nankai University | Graduated: 2013