Meng Huang
Summary
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SeniorEd Huang is a co-founder and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has spent the past decade building cloud-native distributed systems and open-source databases, most notably TiDB and TiDB Cloud through PingCAP. A genuine full-stack engineer and former systems architect, he combines deep hands-on technical ownership with entrepreneurial thinking—treating company design like a distributed system. His background spans infrastructure roles at Wandou Labs, product engineering at NetEase Youdao, and research at Microsoft Research Asia, giving him practical experience across databases, systems, and AI. Active in the open-source ecosystem, his work on TiDB has influenced cloud database tooling and production-grade distributed SQL systems. Not obvious from titles alone: he frames engineering problems with a hacker’s curiosity and crafts developer-facing products that scale operationally and organizationally.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
foundationdb10
complement10
key-value-database10
consensus10
transactional10
non-blocking10
mysql10
key-value10
rocksdb10
net10
tidb10
paxos10
tikv10
splice10
scale10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hslam/unistore
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
A fun project for evaluating some new optimizations quickly, do not use it in production
Contributions:192 pushes, 143 branches, 1 comment in 4 months
optimizationsin-productiondo-not-useoptimizationproduction
hslam/netpoll
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Package netpoll implements a network poller based on epoll/kqueue.
Contributions:3 releases, 180 commits, 82 pushes in 2 years
golangnon-blockingunixkqueueepoll
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