Ben Liu
Senior Software Engineer at PingCAP
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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RockstarBen Liu is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems across startups and global tech firms, currently focused on distributed data infrastructure at PingCAP in Beijing. At PingCAP he contributes to the prominent TiFlow project (DM and TiCDC), improving stability, usability, and features for data migration and change data capture—work that touches redo logs, filtering rules, and command-line tooling. His background includes roles at Grab, Schlumberger, IGT, and ganji.com, giving him deep experience in production-grade engineering and system reliability. Colleagues know him for pragmatic bug-first improvements that yield outsized operational benefits and clear documentation that makes complex systems easier to run.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
data-migration10
error-handling10
cdc10
go10
dm10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tiflow
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
This repo maintains DM (a data migration platform) and TiCDC (change data capture for TiDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:297 reviews, 24 commits, 45 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily address issues and improvements within the TiFlow (DM and TiCDC) codebase. Their work involves fixing bugs related to command-line interface flags, changefeed ID validation, and error messages. They also contribute by enhancing the codebase through documentation improvements and the addition of new features related to redo logs and filtering rules. Their contributions are centered around enhancing the stability, usability, and functionality of the data migration and change data capture platform.
mysqltidbdata-migrationchange-data-capturedata-capture
ben1009/leetcode-rust
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
🦀 leetcode solutions in rust
Contributions:2 reviews, 234 PRs, 183 pushes in 2 years
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