Chengxu Bian
Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChengxu Bian is a software engineer with eight years’ experience specializing in distributed systems and graph database infrastructure, currently building Graph RAG and knowledge-graph inference at Bloomberg. He has a strong focus on storage and low-latency systems—improving key-value read/write performance, implementing tiered WAL storage and compaction, and managing replication for consistency and availability. Prior work includes deep backend contributions to the RisingWave open-source streaming database in Rust, where he refactored storage components, managed versioning logic, and added telemetry that improved operational insight. Chengxu combines production experience at large tech firms and startups with a rigorous academic background (B.S. Computer Science, UW–Madison, 3.9 GPA), and favors pragmatic changes that reduce latency and simplify edge-case handling. Based in New York, he’s comfortable moving between core database internals and higher-level inference tasks, bringing both systems-level rigor and an eye for observability.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA 3.9 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (8)
storage10
databases10
filesystem10
rust10
database10
data-engineering9
stream-processing8
telemetry7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
risingwavelabs/risingwave
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Stream processing and management platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 3 commits, 31 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chengxu primarily focused on refactoring and improving the storage components of the RisingWave database. Their contributions include managing version IDs in the unpin worker, moving version-related logic, and implementing a pinned version guard. They also worked on moving edge case handling for batch ingestion and adding telemetry features, including meta node counts and backend type. These changes suggest an involvement in core database performance and operational aspects.
data-streamserverlessstreamdistributed-sql-databasedatabase
odysa/risingwave
Sep 2022 - May 2023
RisingWave: the next-generation streaming database in the cloud.
Contributions:48 PRs, 322 pushes, 48 branches in 8 months
next-generationdatabasestreaming
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