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I'm Xuan Zhou, Sr. Software Engineer at Google, with 14+ years of experience building large-scale SaaS and data-driven systems across Google and Intuit. I specialize in Java and databases, with experience designing distributed services, reactive architectures, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines. I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, production-grade services and collaborating with SREs, data teams, and product engineers to deliver scalable solutions. I'm passionate about working across the stack—from service design to production operations—and using Python and Scala for data processing and tooling to accelerate insights and automation.…I'm Xuan Zhou, Sr. Software Engineer at Google, with 14+ years of experience building large-scale SaaS and data-driven systems across Google and Intuit. I specialize in Java and databases, with experience designing distributed services, reactive architectures, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines. I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, production-grade services and collaborating with SREs, data teams, and product engineers to deliver scalable solutions. I'm passionate about working across the stack—from service design to production operations—and using Python and Scala for data processing and tooling to accelerate insights and automation.

Xuan Zhou

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I'm Xuan Zhou, Sr. Software Engineer at Google, with 14+ years of experience building large-scale SaaS and data-driven systems across Google and Intuit. I specialize in Java and databases, with experience designing distributed services, reactive architectures, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines. I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, production-grade services and collaborating with SREs, data teams, and product engineers to deliver scalable solutions. I'm passionate about working across the stack—from service design to production operations—and using Python and Scala for data processing and tooling to accelerate insights and automation.…I'm Xuan Zhou, Sr. Software Engineer at Google, with 14+ years of experience building large-scale SaaS and data-driven systems across Google and Intuit. I specialize in Java and databases, with experience designing distributed services, reactive architectures, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines. I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, production-grade services and collaborating with SREs, data teams, and product engineers to deliver scalable solutions. I'm passionate about working across the stack—from service design to production operations—and using Python and Scala for data processing and tooling to accelerate insights and automation.

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I’m Xuan Zhou, Sr. Software Engineer at Google, with 14+ years of experience building large-scale SaaS and data-driven systems across Google and Intuit. I specialize in Java and databases, with experience designing distributed services, reactive architectures, high-throughput APIs, and data pipelines. I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, production-grade services and collaborating with SREs, data teams, and product engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
I’m passionate about working across the stack—from service design to production operations—and using Python and Scala for data processing and tooling to accelerate insights and automation.

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Work Experience

Sr. Software Engineer at Google

March 1, 2020 - Present

Builds and operates production services focusing on scalable backend systems and data-intensive workflows. Designs scalable microservice architectures using gRPC/Protobuf and versioned REST interfaces, implements resiliency patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, graceful degradation), and tunes performance for latency-sensitive APIs. Leads data pipelines (Scala/Spark) for telemetry analytics and partners with SRE to define SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, and runbooks. Develops Python tooling to streamline deployments and on-call diagnostics, and drives refactoring toward modular, service-oriented designs.

Software Engineer at Google

February 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020

Designed and built core backend services for Cloud Talent Solution, including the Matching Engine and Cloud Profile Discover capabilities, and contributed to Discovery Ads. Implemented service interfaces, database/indexing patterns, and service-to-service integrations to support search and recommendation workloads.

Sr. Software Engineer at Intuit

February 1, 2018 - February 1, 2019

Designed, developed, and maintained a schema- and relationship-based orchestration service that unified Intuit resources and served as the single entry point for next-generation v4 APIs used by internal and third-party developers. Focused on API consistency, maintainability, and operational reliability for a broad developer ecosystem.

Software Engineer at Intuit

December 1, 2014 - February 1, 2018

Built a reactive architecture service/client library to capture data change events in Intuit's Small Business Group and persist events to Cassandra. Implemented a shard routing gateway for QuickBooks API with ~50M requests/day, improved availability and latency, and integrated authN/authZ orchestration for secure access. Refactored components to improve quality, security, and performance, and provided rapid production support.

Intern at Intuit

May 1, 2014 - August 1, 2014

Contributed to engineering projects in Intuit’s production environment (service development and/or platform enhancements).

Intern at AstraZeneca

October 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012

Contributed to engineering projects in AstraZeneca’s production environment (service development and/or platform enhancements).