Xiao Huang
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Hamburg, Germany
Toptal member since March 11, 2021
Xiao is a software engineer with several years of professional experience in developing large-scale software primarily in automotive, including autonomous driving, navigation systems, etc. Xiao's primary language is C++, but he also has development experience in Python, MATLAB, and CUDA. Other than delivering products, Xiao has worked on build systems and continuous integration pipelines.
Portfolio
Experience
- Algorithms - 6 years
- Linux - 6 years
- C++ - 6 years
- Git - 5 years
- Python - 5 years
- MATLAB - 5 years
- MacOS - 4 years
- C++14 - 4 years
Work Experience
Software Engineer
TomTom
- Worked on TomTom's navigation product, including traffic, routing, and Android app.
- Provide real-time travel and traffic information to the routing engine.
- Delivered a feature for users to synchronize favorites from the cloud to devices.
Software Engineer
Luxoft
- Developed tools to process and visualize data collected from car sensors.
- Created build jobs for continuous integration, automatic simulation, and source file updates.
- Implemented driving assistance features and tested them in real driving scenarios.
- Mentored intern students, including assigning tasks, checking the progress, and so on.
Research Assistant
Helmholtz Zentrum München
- Developed a data acquisition and visualization tool using MATLAB.
- Accelerated the simulation experiment by algorithmic and low-level optimizations and GPU programming (CUDA).
- Published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports: Nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18857-y.
Research Intern
ICube Laboratory
- Created Python-based tools to generate a large synthetic dataset (over 200,000 images) for different human poses.
- Implemented a random forest method to estimate human pose from a single depth image in C++.
- Developed a multi-view approach to estimate 3D human pose which outperformed the single view method.
Project History
TomTom GO Navigation
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomtom.gplay.navapp&hl=en&gl=USI worked both on the C++-based back-end engine as well as the Android application.
Skills
Tools
Git, MATLAB, Android Studio, CMake, Jenkins
Languages
C++, C++14, Python, Java, Kotlin
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
Linux, MacOS, NVIDIA CUDA, Android
Frameworks
ADTF
Other
Algorithms, Data Structures, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision
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