Baodi Shi is a tech manager and seasoned backend engineer with eight years of experience building and stabilizing distributed systems from Shanghai’s Pudong district. Previously a senior and staff engineer at StreamNative, he now leads technical efforts there while serving as an Apache Pulsar Committer/PMC member, contributing broker-side fixes and reliability improvements to the widely used Apache Pulsar messaging system. He has a strong track record of diagnosing flaky tests, optimizing internal statistics handling, and adding rigorous verification and unit tests to harden production brokers. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering leadership that balances shipping features with long-term system health. An interesting detail: his open-source contributions reveal a preference for tackling subtle stability and correctness issues that often sit behind higher-level features.
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 500 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Baodi's commits primarily focus on implementing enhancements and bug fixes within the Apache Pulsar messaging system. They added verification steps for topic termination, including unit tests and code formatting. Further contributions addressed performance and stability, improving the handling of internal statistics and fixing issues that led to flaky tests. These changes show a dedication to improving the reliability and robustness of the broker-side functionality.
Contributions:94 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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