System researcher and developer with broad experience in general system design and development, and solid research background and publications in area of distributed systems and cloud computing systems.

Senior Software Engineer @ I am working within LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure Team. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Software Engineer @ Nuage - Part of LinkedIn's private Platform as Service (PaaS) for online distributed data systems, such as Voldemort, Espresso, Kafka, etc. Apache Helix - A cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources. (http://helix.apache.org/) From August 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 1 month) Member of Technical Staff III @ Focused on Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Resource Management. Built VMware vSphere enterprise virtual datacenter product, a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure solution that simplifies IT operations while delivering the best SLAs for all applications. It helps realize the agility, efficiency and intelligent operations management of cloud computing. From June 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 3 months) Research Assistant/Ph.D Candidate @ My research specially focused on various high performance, low overhead system and network virtualization techniques to bridge high performance computing (HPC) with public cloud computing. I was a major contributor to Palacios, an open sourced virtual machine monitor (hypervisor) that is specially designed for high performance computing scenarios (http://www.v3vee.org/palacios/). My research has generated more than 10 publications on top-level computer system conferences and journals. From September 2008 to June 2013 (4 years 10 months) Research Intern @ Designed and built a prototyped scalable, secure, affordable and privacy preserving cloud storage for storing and sharing of electrical health records (EHR) among healthcare providers and patients. From June 2012 to September 2012 (4 months) Research Intern @ Built, and performance tuned a new prototype WiFi virtualization system, named virtual WiFi. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Developed a social retail platform for customers to explorer video information from their connections to assist their purchases. From June 2009 to September 2009 (4 months)

Ph.D., Computer Science @ Northwestern University From 2008 to 2013 Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science @ Nanjing University From 2004 to 2007 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Geosciences @ Nanjing University From 2000 to 2004 Lei Xia is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Python, Java, High Performance Computing, Scalability, Networking, Linux Kernel, Software Development, Performance Tuning, Spring