Xing Zhou

Software Engineering Leader
Metro Detroit, MI | [email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/connect-with-xing

Professional Summary

Empathetic engineering leader with over a decade in cultivating high-performing, joyful software teams. Focused on developing engineers through personalized coaching to develop technical excellence and interpersonal skills. Experienced in aligning teams with organizational goals, providing predictable outcomes, and delivering with a prioritized, feedback-driven, iterative process.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer Manager, Staff Software Engineer | Ford Credit | 12/2020 — Present
Lead teams in modernizing web and cloud-native services in the loan originations process and account servicing process, including high-volume microservices handling over 1M requests per day.

  • Mentored 18 engineers and technical project managers (TPMs) across two teams with eight promotions.

  • Facilitated a culture of ownership, responsibility, quality, and growth through hands-on mentoring and one-on-ones, matching people to appropriate roles, and improving collaborations processes within and across teams.

  • Improve team productivity by providing strategic focus, removing organizational blockers, and motivating individuals with personalized, contextualized purpose and goals.

  • Improve team predictability and reduce operational toil by evangelizing agile/lean/DevOps concepts such as cycle time and SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.

  • Boosted adoption and standardization of event sourcing patterns by creating and maintaining a reusable Java library integration application code with SQL databases.

  • Coached and mentored teams org-wide on Behavior-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Hexagonal Architecture techniques.

  • Boosted team productivity by instilling XP practices like TDD, refactoring, CI/CD.

Associate Director of Engineering, Software Engineer Manager | Integral | 07/2018 — 12/2020
Lead and grew the engineering discipline while supporting client project deliveries.

  • Improved employee engagement and retention by defining Integral’s engineering leadership structure, engineer levels, and skills matrix.

  • Spearheaded the adoption of engineer management practices including a transparent hiring process, onboarding training, “stay interviews,” and engagement assessments.

  • Supported project delivery as technical lead and client liaison.

  • Lead XP and agile workshops internally and to clients.

Software Engineer | Pivotal Labs | 03/2017 — 06/2018
Delivered greenfield projects for clients using XP principles and practices.

  • Lead technical workshops on foundational technical practices such as TDD, Dependency Inversion Principle, Hexagonal Architecture, and refactoring.

  • Coached client engineers in XP practices, such as TDD, CI/CD, and refactoring.

Software Development Engineer | Amazon | 06/2015 — 10/2016
Developed features for Kindle for iOS in an agile team.

  • Mentored software engineer intern in agile project planning, SOLID software design, and TDD.

Skills

Leadership CliftonStrengths, Servant Leadership, Non-Violent Communication
Process Extreme Programming, Agile Development, Lean Development, CI/CD
Software Design Cloud-Native Applications, Microservices, TDD, DDD, BDD, Event Sourcing, Hexagonal Architecture
Technology Java, Spring Boot, React, Ruby on Rails

Education

Carnegie Mellon University | Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | 2015