Curt Hu
Senior Engineering Manager at Alluxio, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurt Hu is a Senior Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 11 years of experience leading high-impact teams that build scalable data intelligence and SQL analytics infrastructure. He has driven Presto at production scale at Uber—improving Hive Metastore integration, metrics, impersonation, and hybrid/cloud deployments—and contributed to prominent open-source projects like Alluxio and Presto. Comfortable switching between hands-on backend development and technical leadership, Curt has led efforts that increased data processing capacity by 10x and enabled Presto on new execution substrates such as Flink and local SSD caches. His background spans startups and hyperscale companies (Apple, Uber, Quantcast) and reflects deep expertise in distributed systems, real-time pipelines, and storage-compute integrations. A Zhejiang and Beijing Jiaotong alumnus, he combines pragmatic engineering with community-oriented open-source contributions that have measurable production impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
big-data10
sql-query10
hive10
presto10
java10
hadoop9
user-data9
data-model9
data-set9
sql9
sqlite6
indexing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 12 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Curt primarily contributed to the Presto query engine's Hive Metastore integration. Their work focused on improving the management of HMS memory settings and adding metrics for multiple HMS instances. The user also addressed review comments and refactored code to use the HMS Authentication Module. Furthermore, the commits included modifications to enable Hive Metastore access with impersonation.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
BlueStalker/presto
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:64 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 10 months
querybigtablehivequery-enginenosql
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