Charles Cheung
Software Developer at Ramus Information Systems Ltd
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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RockstarCharles Cheung is a pragmatic software developer based in Hong Kong with five years of experience focused on backend engineering and test automation. At Ramus Information Systems he applies a practical, reliability-first approach to systems integration and CI, with hands-on work improving and stabilizing integration tests for change data capture pipelines. His open-source contributions to the high-profile TiDB ecosystem (pingcap/tiflow) show a specialty in CDC interactions with Kafka and TiDB, where he has hardened gc_safepoint and Kafka consumer tests. Known for candid opinions on toolchains, he balances blunt preferences with effective test-driven improvements that reduce flakiness in distributed system testing.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
sh10
change-data-capture10
cdc10
script10
shell10
scripting10
testing10
kafka9
tidb9
go8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tiflow
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
This repo maintains DM (a data migration platform) and TiCDC (change data capture for TiDB)
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1356 reviews, 103 commits, 332 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to test-related aspects of the `tiflow` repository, specifically focusing on improving and fixing integration tests. Their commits addressed issues in the `gc_safepoint` and Kafka consumer tests, indicating a focus on the Change Data Capture (CDC) and its interaction with components like Kafka and TiDB. The code changes involve modifying and enhancing test scripts (shell scripts), including the addition of Kafka consumer functionality and modifications to existing test scenarios to improve stability.
mysqltidbdata-migrationchange-data-capturedata-capture
CharlesCheung96/tiflow
Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
This repo maintains DM (a data migration platform) and TiCDC (change data capture for TiDB)
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 PRs, 1651 pushes in 3 years
tidbdata-migrationchange-data-capturedata-capturedatabase
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