Summary
Fang Xing is a senior software engineer with two decades of hands-on experience across databases, performance engineering, and query optimization, currently contributing at Elastic. He previously enhanced the query optimizer within MariaDB's cascade framework and has deep experience tuning DB2, Netezza, and Vertica in both on-prem and cloud contexts. Fang's career blends low-level database internals from IBM with applied performance diagnostics at Micro Focus and municipal-scale tuning for the City of Boston. Based in Belmont, Massachusetts, he brings a systems-minded approach that pairs rigorous performance measurement with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Notably, his background spans networking and system administration through early roles at Schlumberger, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on data infrastructure.
2 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor EE, Bachelor EE at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English