Congyi Wang
Managing Director at Chinese British Wine Company Ltd.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCongyi Wang is a London-based managing director and entrepreneur with six years of hands-on software engineering experience focused on backend and database systems. He contributes to RisingWave, an open-source stream processing platform, where his backend work added TiKV state store support, epoch handling, unit tests, and detailed state/compute metrics. Alongside running UK operations for hospitality and wine businesses, he blends commercial leadership with practical engineering skills—comfortable moving between boardroom strategy and low-level system design. His academic background in economics and finance underpins a data-informed approach to product and operational decisions. Colleagues would describe him as concise and pragmatic—his GitHub motto “Think more” reflecting a preference for thoughtful, measurable improvements.
6 years of coding experience
International Baccalaureate, High School, International Baccalaureate, High School at Leysin American School in SwitzerlandFoundation degree, Economics and Business, Foundation degree, Economics and Business at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBachelor's degree, Economics and Finance, Bachelor's degree, Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, U. of London
English, Chinese, French, German
Github Skills (13)
databases10
rust10
relational-databases10
unit-test10
sql-database10
database10
distributed-systems9
prometheus9
amazon-s37
s3-bucket7
parquet7
hdfs7
aws-s37
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
risingwavelabs/risingwave
Dec 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 & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:712 reviews, 171 commits, 584 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Congyi primarily contributed to the backend of the RisingWave project, with a focus on database functionalities. Their commits include adding and modifying unit tests for the source manager and implementing the TiKV state store, including the addition of epoch for it. The user also worked on metrics, specifically adding a variety of metrics for the state store and Hummock, and for compute throughput and memory usage.
data-streamserverlessstreamdistributed-sql-databasedatabase
wcy-fdu/opendal
Feb 2023 - Feb 2024
OpenDAL: Access data freely, painlessly, and efficiently
Contributions:78 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year
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