Xin LI

Current

Committer at The FreeBSD Project
Sr. Software Engineer at SINA Corporation

Past

Senior Consultant at Frontfree Technology Network
Chief Technology Officer at Frontfree Technology Network

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Xin LI’s Summary

Experienced in design and implementation of real world Internet applications and have a particular interest in performance and scalability. Developer at various open source projects with no fear of being part of latest R&D trends. Preferred OS is FreeBSD but can also work on other *nix and Windows development or server environments.

Xin LI’s Specialties:

Internet application architecture, Scalable and secure distributed system, OS development, System performance bottleneck hunting and problem solving

Xin LI’s Experience

Committer

The FreeBSD Project

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Maintained several parts of the FreeBSD operating system ranging from device driver to third party contributed code, mostly focused in providing a more convenient environment for system administrators and developers, kept an eye on latest hardware as well as overall system reliability/performance.
Sr. Software Engineer

SINA Corporation

(Public Company; SINA; Internet industry)

June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

Redesigned, implemented and migrated several parts of SINA's e-mail system including the anti-spam, LDAP authentication, as well as our distributed storage systems, serving hundreds of millions of users, making the system more flexible and reduced per-user cost. Maintained in-house operating system based on FreeBSD, as well as other open source infrastructure variants and gave technical support and training to colleagues.
Senior Consultant

Frontfree Technology Network

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 3 months)
Chief Technology Officer

Frontfree Technology Network

(Computer Software industry)

August 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Co-founder. Overseen authoring and provided technical advise to article authors, give schedule plan, act as principal system architect and project manager for projects commercial companies outsourced to us.