Xiao Liang

About Xiao Liang

Technical leader and software engineer with over 15 years of experience across mobile (including on-device AI) and distributed backend services on AWS. I\'ve led cross-functional teams through the full arc of product delivery — architecture, implementation, and scale — and I care deeply about building systems and cultures that last.I bring a rare cross-functional perspective spanning mobile and backend, working closely with product and platform teams to ship outcomes that matter. Maintainability, testability, and clarity are non-negotiables regardless of the stack.AI is now a core part of how I build. I leverage agentic tooling (RooCode, Claude Code) to accelerate development and automate across the SDLC, and I\'m actively expanding into Applied AI engineering — designing MCP-backed services, agentic workflows, and AI-native product capabilities that drive measurable user and business impact.

Experience

1. Sr Software Engineer Ii - Backend Services (Grid Coordination)

   Smartsheet

   Apr 2025 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Worked with a talented team of backend and infrastructure engineers to orchestrate sheet API traffic for the grid platform. Decoupled API requests from a legacy monolithic system, and into a highly scalable ECS microservice.• Migrated 67M+ API sheet reqs/day from a monolith to microservices (700+ reqs/sec,<0.1% errors)• Delivered move and copy rows for grid data archival (4k+ reqs/month,<0.5% errors)• Preserved $2.5M+ in customer ARR through critical reliability improvements and technical ownership• Exposed grid APIs as MCP tools, enabling upstream agents to interact with sheet data• Shaped agentic SDLC workflows via RooCode, adopted across 2 engineering organizations• Mentored junior engineers in best practices, software architecture, and professional growth

Education

• Colorado School of Mines

  BS, Computer Science and Minor in Electrical Engineering

• Colorado School of Mines

  MS, Computer Science

Skills

• Oracle
• Spring
• Eclipse
• Tomcat
• Agile Methodologies
• Java
• Java Enterprise Edition