Haonan Hou is a Senior Database Developer with nine years of experience building and hardening database and time-series systems, currently based in Boston. As an Apache IoTDB PMC member and committer, he has driven core back-end work on the widely used Apache IoTDB project, including a new TsFile implementation and fixes to TsFileWriter, REST API and session handling. He brings commercial experience at Timecho and research-adjacent roles at Tsinghua University and the National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Software, blending academic rigor with production delivery. With a Master's in Computer Science from UMass Boston and a background in electrical engineering from Xidian University, he comfortably spans storage internals, file formats, and distributed data services. Notably, his contributions focus on the low-level file and session semantics that make time-series databases robust at scale.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Xidian University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston
Contributions:25 releases, 2361 reviews, 793 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Haonan contributed to the development of the Apache IoTDB project by merging and contributing new features to the tsfile module, specifically focusing on the new TsFile implementation. The user was responsible for fixing a bug in the TsFileWriter and other issues related to file handling. Additionally, the user has made changes to code related to REST API and session related operations.
Contributions:29 PRs, 91 pushes, 26 branches in 15 days
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