Haibo Wang is a backend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in machine learning and natural language processing at scale. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines a strong academic foundation from Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon with executive training from Harvard Business School to bridge technical depth and strategic thinking. He contributes to high-profile Apache projects like InLong and ShenYu, improving data-streaming reliability and API gateway load balancing through targeted refactors, build fixes, and unit tests. Haibo’s strengths lie in stabilizing distributed Java systems—tuning RPC/Netty clients and load balancers—to make large-data ML pipelines more robust and testable. Colleagues value his pragmatic focus on warning reduction and build health, which often prevents subtle production issues. He brings an engineer’s attention to detail plus a product-aware perspective on deploying ML/NLP solutions in complex, real-world environments.
9 years of coding experience
Leadership and Strategy, Leadership and Strategy at Harvard Business School Executive Education
Bachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tsinghua University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Apache ShenYu is a Java native API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion and API governance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:29 reviews, 22 commits, 42 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Haibo primarily focused on optimizing and cleaning up code within the `shenyu-loadbalancer` module. Their contributions involved refactoring the `RoundRobinLoadBalancer`, `RandomLoadBalancer`, and related caching mechanisms. They also made changes to the `shenyu-plugin-tars` and `shenyu-plugin-uri` modules, and added unit tests for the `URIPlugin` and various client register services. The work focused on improving the efficiency and testability of the API gateway's load balancing features and plugin components.
Apache InLong - a one-stop, full-scenario integration framework for massive data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:41 reviews, 18 commits, 23 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Haibo primarily focused on fixing warning logs and addressing build issues within the `apache/inlong` repository. Their commits involved modifying core Java files in the `tubemq-core` module, specifically related to RPC and Netty client configurations. Furthermore, the user made changes to utility classes and a manager module, indicating a focus on backend functionality and potentially integration aspects related to data streaming and message queuing within the InLong framework.
event-streamingstopframeworkapachebig-data
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