Fangxin Lou
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolFangxin Lou is a seasoned database architect and engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling high-throughput relational systems for payment platforms, notably leading OceanBase development and managing Alipay’s and Tmall’s databases through massive growth. He began as a Senior Oracle DBA at eBay and rose to lead DBA and developer teams that scaled systems from single servers to hundreds, handling workloads from 1 million to 100 million trades per day. A recognized Oracle ACE (2007) and author of widely used recovery tools like AUL/MyDUL, he combines deep operational expertise with hands-on kernel and distributed-database engineering (MySQL, PolarDB, OceanBase). He’s co-founded a database-focused startup, introduced production features such as thread pools and fast DDL into cloud RDS kernels, and is pragmatic about cost, availability and automation. Based in Hangzhou, he blends large-scale production experience with open-source tooling and a knack for practical innovations that reduce operational burden.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacherous, Economics, Bacherous, Economics at Sichuan University
Github Skills (80)
openstack-swift10
bigtable10
cloud-native10
golang10
storage10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
go10
posix10
cloud-storage10
filesystem10
redis10
hdfs10
azure-blob-storage10
pygobject9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anysql/sharedserver
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:214 commits, 220 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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