# Yadong Xie / 谢亚东

> Yadong Xie (谢亚东) leads a user-experience team on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and was a founding member of Lepton AI. Projects, writing and experiments.

Hi, I'm Yadong Xie. I've always been responsible for product user experience, and I believe:

> User experience without business is unsustainable.\
> Business without user experience has no bottom line.

## 2025 – now · NVIDIA · Principal Engineer / Senior Manager

I lead a team building the user experience of [NVIDIA DGX Cloud](https://www.yadongxie.com/projects/nvidia-dgx-cloud), NVIDIA's AI factory in the cloud.

## 2023 – 2025 · Lepton AI · Founding member

Employee number one at the AI cloud acquired by NVIDIA. I was responsible for building the product and its user experience.

## 2015 – 2023 · Alibaba · Staff Engineer

I led web architecture and product experience for Alibaba Cloud's open-source big data systems — [Apache Flink](https://www.yadongxie.com/projects/alibaba-cloud-flink) and [E-MapReduce](https://www.yadongxie.com/projects/alibaba-cloud-emr).

## On this site

- [Projects](https://www.yadongxie.com/projects): products, platforms and open-source libraries I have built or led
- [Lab](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab): small interfaces, visual experiments and tools I make to think with
- [Writing](https://www.yadongxie.com/writing): posts I have written and talks I have given
- [Saved](https://www.yadongxie.com/saved): design work by other people that I keep coming back to

## Elsewhere

- [GitHub](https://github.com/vthinkxie)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadongxie)
- [X](https://x.com/yadong_xie)