Xiao is a Software Engineering Director in Salesforce. She has about 10 years of experiences in the large scale and distributed computing area. Xiao has led numerous cloud native efforts and projects at Salesforce, and previously VMware. She is very passionate about improving quality through automation and works hard to create clean and simple solutions to solve hard infrastructure challenges. She has mentored many female students and engineers, and hopes to encourage more female engineers to be interested in infrastructure engineering.