Summary
Dan Mei is a performance engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling platform services at Salesforce, currently leading the Schema and Metadata performance team for customer-customizable core systems including Customer Data Platform (Genie). He specializes in end-to-end performance solutions—database and query tuning, JVM optimization, server tuning, and large-scale performance test frameworks—and has driven high-impact efforts across Customer 360, Pardot, OData, and Financial Services Cloud. Dan blends hands-on profiling and tooling (JMeter, LoadRunner, Splunk, Grafana) with technical leadership, routinely designing monitoring and observability pipelines that translate telemetry into actionable scale insights. His background includes deep exposure to Oracle/MySQL performance, large-scale data load and Lightning page optimization, and building in-house performance tooling that informed customer-facing SLAs. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and with early systems experience at VMware and research roles in China, he brings a research-informed, pragmatic approach to performance at enterprise scale. Colleagues rely on him not just for measurements, but for turning those measurements into concrete, production-ready fixes.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Information Engineering; Information & Communication Engineering, B.S Information Engineering; Information & Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
M.S Information Networking Information Networking Institute, M.S Information Networking Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University