Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Timeline
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Xueting Fan

Madison

Summary

As a Software Engineer I worked in this field for a while and would like to share my expertise and experience to my teams in different industry to build high-efficient, well-functional software or semi-hardware project using my intelligence, handwork and best effort to create a reliable system and software platforms in the future.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Manager

Capital One
Remote
10.2022 - Current
  • Mentored junior software engineers, providing careful guidance on development strategies and education on innovative development techniques.
  • Integrated prescribed processes and conventions during project agile management cycles to align products with product owners and customers.
  • Identified project vulnerability issues and improvement areas, performing troubleshooting techniques for remediation. T
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate specific project migrations.
  • Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.

Software Engineer

Amazon Inc
Remote
09.2021 - 10.2022
  • Amazon Alexa Privacy team, managing millions of customer requests of doing voice-triggered Alexa audio history deletion and settings change from end users.
  • Coordinated, Designed, and led engineers to bring up Amazon HCM (human capital management) batch injection system to process large-scale data on database management system.

Software Engineer

Google Inc
Madison, WI
05.2016 - 03.2021
  • Google Speech Recognition: Led and designed project to utilize deep Neural Networks to “mouthwash” illegal speech recognition results.
  • Google Data Infrastructure and Analysis: Lead and Design DataChef (automatic generation ads database for benchmark comparison) for research purposes.
  • Participated in architecture, design, and implementation of backend features using Python and data mining tools on research-originated project AutoInsight.
  • Coordinated with peer engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.

Software Engineer

Yahoo! Inc
Champaign, IL
09.2010 - 03.2016
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to advertisement traffic protection and ETL processing pipeline to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Provided direction and guidance to process improvements and as project lead for agile management.
  • Partnered with the development team on product development and application support plans.

Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, IL
08.2010 - 05.2012
  • Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of production database in Ford Motor Company with test data.
  • Reviewed and designed documents and data to identify potential improvements to improve frequent queries - depends on accuracy of index based column, efficiency could improve up to 80%.
  • Worked both independently and collaboratively in fast-paced laboratory environment

Education

M.S - Industrial Engineering

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
08.2012

B.E - Automation Engineering

Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
07.2010

Skills

  • C
  • Java
  • Python
  • SQL
  • C Database/Data processing
  • Hadoop
  • Map Reduce
  • Naive Byes classifier
  • AWS
  • Machine learning
  • Project management
  • Technical Drawings

Accomplishments

  • 2023 Capital One team lead and software engineering manager to help demote a deprecated system successfully without hurting the currently running project and software ecosystem in the department of card and revenue.
  • 2021 Amazon team lead to build up a new system with little help from teammates to accelerate the processing rate of a bulk resume and profile handling system in the data engineering and resume sync system.
  • Accomplished sole-lead projects in multiple scenarios and companies eg. Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon as a team lead of small and medium size projects to improve company revenue and access rate for project improvement. Well-trained to handle different scenarios such as project failure in production and other environments or multiple test cases.

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Capital One
10.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Amazon Inc
09.2021 - 10.2022

Software Engineer

Google Inc
05.2016 - 03.2021

Software Engineer

Yahoo! Inc
09.2010 - 03.2016

Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana
08.2010 - 05.2012

M.S - Industrial Engineering

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

B.E - Automation Engineering

Tsinghua University
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