August
Software Engineer at risingwavelabs
Beijing, China
Summary
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RockstarAugust is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in backend and database engineering, currently based in Beijing. He contributes to RisingWave, an open-source stream processing platform, where his work focuses on core database improvements like expression byte generation macros, length expressions, data chunk optimizations, and system catalog additions to boost performance and feature completeness. Comfortable working deep in database internals, he blends practical engineering with attention to low-latency, real-time data needs. His GitHub bio—"Act like a human"—hints at a pragmatic, collaborative approach to problem solving and open-source contribution. Colleagues can rely on him to translate complex storage and processing challenges into maintainable, high-performance backend code.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
databases10
rust10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
performance-optimization9
system-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
risingwavelabs/risingwave
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The event stream processing platform for developers. Unified experience for real-time data ingestion, stream processing, and low-latency serving. Best-in-class performance and cost-efficiency. Supports SQL and Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1774 reviews, 243 commits, 735 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:August's commits primarily focused on enhancing the RisingWave database's backend functionalities. This included the implementation of macros for expression byte generation and the addition of a length expression. Further contributions involved modifications to data chunk implementations and the inclusion of system catalogs, indicating a focus on performance improvements and feature enhancements within the core database logic.
data-streamserverlessstreamdistributed-sql-databasedatabase
yezizp2012/yezizp2012.github.io
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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