Gerlou Shyy
Senior Software Engineer at Oracle
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGerlou Shyy is a senior software engineer based in California with a decade of experience building distributed systems and performance-focused features at major tech firms. A University of Texas at Austin computer science graduate, he progressed from internships at Facebook and IBM to multi-year engineering roles at Oracle where he now contributes at a senior level. His background includes hands-on work on Presto’s query engine—where he helped improve group-by performance and extend function invocation—and experience across backend performance tuning, testing, and QA. Known for translating complex performance requirements into reliable production changes, he brings both large-company rigor and internship-era curiosity to system optimization and scalable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinSaratoga High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
sql-query10
spark10
big-data10
hadoop10
java10
hive10
sql10
presto10
database10
trino9
query-engine9
algebra7
django7
python6
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gerlou/presto
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:89 pushes, 32 branches in 2 months
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
gerlou/gerlou.github.io
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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