Dian Tang
Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDian Tang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across infrastructure, backend, and data pipelines. A Waterloo BCS alum based in Toronto, she has led end-to-end development of microservices and a cross-channel communication platform that sends to 100M+ users daily and materially improved GMV through personalized campaign systems. Her background spans SRE, full-stack development, and data engineering at companies including Wish, Coinbase, LinkedIn, Dropbox and Yahoo, with hands-on on-call and platform ownership experience. Dian is an active open-source contributor to Apache Pinot, where she implemented SQL connectors and fixed nuanced timezone and time-format issues for realtime OLAP ingestion. She combines a hacker’s curiosity—with a goal to be “the best hacker in guitarists”—and pragmatic product focus, mentoring hires while iterating with PMs and data scientists to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Shanghai Weiyu High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
sql10
java10
mysql9
presto9
h29
time-series8
data-analysis8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 31 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Dian contributed significantly to the backend of the Apache Pinot project by implementing a SQL connector, supporting Presto, MySQL, and H2 databases. They also worked on the integration of a front-end component for dataset onboarding. Furthermore, the user addressed timezone conversion issues within the MySQL and H2 database implementations, and included a new time format option. The user also worked on other fixes to the Holt Winters detector.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
tangdian/incubator-pinot
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Apache Pinot (Incubating) - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:112 pushes, 14 branches in 3 months
incubatingrealtimeolapapachedatastore
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