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Employment

2024.07 - 2024.03   Oracle Labs Zurich   Member of Technical Staff

• In GraalOS Control Plane Team.

Education

2021.09 - 2024.03   EPFL   Master of Science in Computer Science.

• GPA: 5.54/6.0
• Courses:
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Database Systems (Scala)
  • Distributed Algorithms
  • Modern NLP (GPT & LLM)
  • Principles of Computer Systems
  • Systems for Data Science (Spark)
• Thesis: Deptyque: eBPF-Based Build Provenance for Dependency Analysis, Oracle Copyright.

2017.09 - 2021.07   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen   Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering.

• Cummulative GPA: 3.827
• Major GPA: 3.885
• Rank:
  • In major: 2 / 116
  • In School of Data Science: 7 / 257
• Core Courses:
  • Blockchain Systems (Go)
  • Cloud Computing (AWS)
  • Computer Architecture
  • Data Structures (Java)
  • Database (SQL & MySQL)
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing (MPI, OpenMP, pthread)
  • Programming: C++, Python
  • Probabilities
  • Software Engineering
  • Stochastic Processes (Markov Chain)

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2019.06 - 2019.08   University of California, Berkeley   Summer Session.

• GPA: 4.000
• Courses: Operating System and Systems Programming, Game Theory

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Achievements

• 2021.05   Outstanding Graduates The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• 2019.12   Academic Scholarship Scholarship (Class B) in 2018-2019   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• 2019.09   Dean’s List   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• 2019.01   Meritorious Winner   Interdisciplinary Contest in Modelling (MCM/ICM)
• 2019.01   Best Presenter in the Final   Global AI Transmission Competition
• 2018.12   Academic Scholarship Scholarship (Class B) in 2017-2018   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• 2018.09   National Second Prize   China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• 2018.09   Dean’s List   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• 2018.09   Second Prize in South China   National WeChat Mini App Development Contest
• 2018.09   Semi-Half Admission Scholarship and Bowen Scholarship   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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Project List

• eBPF-Based Build Provenance for Software Dependency Analysis
• Infrastructure as Code: Composition and Visualization (Terraform)
• Linux cgroup Scalability
• Personal Blog on OCI and GitHub
• Graduation Album Project
• Cloud Practices at Apartsa
• Bucket-Based Expiration Algorithm: Improving Eviction Efficiency for In-Memory Key-Value Database (Redis)
• BitCoin Community Sentiment Analysis
• Campus Heatmap

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Experiences Finished

2023.09 - 2024.03   Oracle Labs Zurich   Research Assistant

• Project: eBPF-Based Build Provenance for Software Dependency Analysis.
• Mentors: Hugo Guiroux and Christopher Ferreira, Manager: Adam Zurada
• Academic advisor: Prof. Mathias Payer (EPFL).

2022.07 - 2022.12   Oracle Labs Zurich   Research Assistant

• Project: Infrastructure as Code: Composition and Visualization (Terraform)
• Mentor: Harshad Kasture, Manager: Lucas Braun.

2021.09 - 2022.06   EPFL RS3Lab   Semester Project Student

• Project: Linux cgroup Scalability
• Supervisor: Prof. Sanidhya Kashyap at RS3Lab

2020.07 - 2021.12   Apartsa Information Technology Co., Ltd   CTO

• Projects:
  • Graduation Album Project
• A leading overseas information sharing platform in CUHK(SZ).

2019.09 - 2021.05   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen   Undergraduate Student Teaching Fellow

• Teaching Courses:
  • Spring 2021: CSC 3050 Computer Architecture
  • Fall 2020: CSC 3002 C++
  • Summer 2020: CSC 3100 Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Spring 2020: CSC 1002 Computational Laboratory: Python
  • Fall 2019: ERG 3010 Data and Knowledge Management
• Hold tutorials and prepare complementary materials

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2020.02 - 2020.06   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen   Individual Researcher

• Supervisor: Prof. Yeh-Ching Chung.
• Topic: Bucket-Based Expiration Algorithm: Improving Eviction Efficiency for In-Memory Key-Value Database.
• Accepted by The International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS) 2020.
• Link

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2019.02 - 2020.05   Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data   Individual Researcher

• Supervisor: Dr. Yupeng Li.
• Topic: Propose an innovative Ride Sharing Model and a heuristic algorithm.
• Two submitted patterns by Didi Chuxing.

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2018.09 - 2018.12   The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen   Research Assistant

• Supervisor: Prof. SUI Pengfei.
• Topic: AI sentiment analysis of Bitcoin Forum comments.
• Applied the latest AI technology (NLP) to analyze the correlation between investors’ emotion and the Bitcoin price.

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2018.06 - 2018.08   Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data   Software Engineer Intern

• Topic: CUHK(SZ) Campus Heatmap Program.
• Designed the user-friendly interface and wrote the program in a 2-person group.

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2018.04 - 2020.04   Polaris Studio   Co-founder.

• A startup team providing software services and building softwares.
• Manage a 10-person team.

Research Advisors

Prof. Sanidhya Kashyap

• Linux cgroup concurrency research.
• Semester projects at EPFL.

Prof. Yeh-Ching Chung

• Research about computer systems.
• 2020.08: Bucket-Based Expiration Algorithm: Improving Eviction Efficiency for In-Memory Key-Value Database. Guochao Xie and Yeh-Ching Chung. Accepted by The International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS) 2020.

Dr. Yupeng Li

• Research about modeling and algorithms.

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Skills

Programming Skills:

• Fluent: Python, Go, C, C++, JavaScript, Terraform.
• Good: MATLAB, Java, SQL, Scala, Rust.

Frameworks and Tools:

• Systems: eBPF, perf, YCSB, Docker, QEMU, Firecracker, Terraform.
• Applications: Serverless, numpy, pandas, React, Django, Flask, Gin, Redis, MySQL, Markdown, Latex.

Language Skills:

• TOEFL: 103. GRE: 328 + 3.5.
• Native Chinese and Cantonese speaker.
• French and German beginner.

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Reference Links

• GitHub: XieGuochao
• LinkedIn: xieguochao