Hi, I'm Yuehai Xu, a backend engineer with over 10 years of experience working in some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Meta, Uber, VMware, and Google. I specialize in building scalable backend systems and distributed infrastructure using technologies like AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark. I am passionate about delivering value and solving real-world engineering challenges. Currently based in Perth, Western Australia, I enjoy working as a results-oriented individual contributor and am actively seeking remote backend engineering opportunities. My strong expertise spans Java, Python, JavaScript, and Linux, and I thrive on building systems that make a difference.

Yuehai Xu

Hi, I'm Yuehai Xu, a backend engineer with over 10 years of experience working in some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Meta, Uber, VMware, and Google. I specialize in building scalable backend systems and distributed infrastructure using technologies like AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark. I am passionate about delivering value and solving real-world engineering challenges. Currently based in Perth, Western Australia, I enjoy working as a results-oriented individual contributor and am actively seeking remote backend engineering opportunities. My strong expertise spans Java, Python, JavaScript, and Linux, and I thrive on building systems that make a difference.

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Hi, I’m Yuehai Xu, a backend engineer with over 10 years of experience working in some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Meta, Uber, VMware, and Google. I specialize in building scalable backend systems and distributed infrastructure using technologies like AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark. I am passionate about delivering value and solving real-world engineering challenges.

Currently based in Perth, Western Australia, I enjoy working as a results-oriented individual contributor and am actively seeking remote backend engineering opportunities. My strong expertise spans Java, Python, JavaScript, and Linux, and I thrive on building systems that make a difference.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Meta Inc
November 1, 2024 - July 23, 2025
Built CI/CD systems for large language models such as Meta's Llama series and for smart glasses like Meta's Ray-Ban Glass. Worked extensively on AI models and AOSP projects using Hack, Python, and Bash scripting.
Senior Software Engineer at Uber Inc
June 1, 2022 - July 23, 2025
Developed traffic models for map traffic pipelines supporting routing engines. Built pipelines for map data error detection, data conversion supporting trip routing, and data streams supporting Uber’s driver incentives. Utilized Spark, Flink, EMR with Java and Python.
Software Engineer at VMWare Inc
August 1, 2016 - July 23, 2025
Developed an in-memory distributed key value store in vSAN using consensus algorithms (multi-PAXOS) and UNIX network stacks with C.
Software Engineer Intern at Google Inc
October 1, 2013 - July 23, 2025
Built the video compression framework for Chrome proxy.
Software Research Intern at Microsoft Research
July 1, 2013 - July 23, 2025
Developed disk scheduling algorithms for Bing's distributed storage system.
Software Engineer Intern at Facebook Inc
August 1, 2012 - July 23, 2025
Designed and built memory cache replacement algorithms for Facebook’s Distributed Memory Pool.
Co-Founder at HelpNow Inc
July 1, 2009 - July 23, 2025
Designed and built full stack systems supporting remote diagnostics for customers’ Windows systems.

Education

Ph.D. at Wayne State University
August 1, 2009 - September 1, 2014
B.E. at Southeast University
August 1, 2000 - September 1, 2004

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Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Transportation & Logistics

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