Mars Lan
Senior Staff Engineer at Cribl
United States
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Top SchoolMars Lan is a Senior Staff Engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience building data infrastructure and metadata platforms that power discovery, governance, and AI workflows. He co-founded and served as CTO of Metaphor Data—recently acquired by KPMG—bringing open-source metadata ideas into a commercial platform and previously led a 16-engineer team at LinkedIn that helped create the DataHub project. Technically broad (from Verilog to JavaScript), his open-source contributions include backend and DevOps improvements to DataHub such as adding JaCoCo-based coverage, plus native mobile fixes in react-native-iap, reflecting a full-stack systems-to-device skill set. He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UCLA, frequently speaks and writes on metadata and generative-AI governance, and now applies that expertise to scaling data systems at Cribl.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)
ios10
react-native10
java10
javas10
android10
in-app-purchase10
jacoco10
gradlew10
gradle10
billing9
debug9
debugging9
testng9
ci-cd9
appstore9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 120 reviews, 514 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mars's contributions primarily involve enhancing the codebase through the introduction of automated code coverage reporting and build system improvements. Their work included the addition of JaCoCo for backend and web code coverage and the integration of code coverage for TestNG-based tests. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the build configuration to enable code coverage and incorporated several dependency updates within the build files. These changes resulted in improved test coverage and a more robust development workflow.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
hyochan/react-native-iap
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
In App Purchase module for React Native!
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mars primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements for the React Native In-App Purchase module. Their work includes addressing an Android build issue, providing a dummy value for a required argument to prevent crashes, and implementing fixes for iOS, such as preventing warnings and improving error handling. The user also improved the error handling by utilizing localized descriptions. The user focused on Android and iOS native code.
react-native-iapreactreact-nativein-app-purchaseamazon
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