Hong Su is an architect and database expert with over a decade of experience designing and optimizing relational and XML query engines for enterprise systems. He has deep, hands-on expertise in Oracle SQL kernel optimization and large-scale performance tuning on Exadata, backed by a long track record of improvements shipped since the Oracle 11g cycle. A prolific inventor, Hong holds 14 issued US patents at Oracle (plus earlier patents at HP) and has published research in SIGMOD, CIKM and VLDB on topics like approximate distinct counting and automatic SQL error mitigation. His work bridges theory and production—turning sampling and synopsis algorithms into features that cut real-world processing times from hours to minutes for massive partitioned tables. Based in Redwood City, he combines research rigor from a PhD with pragmatic engineering that directly improves optimizer accuracy and runtime behavior. One less obvious strength is his specialty in streaming XML query execution, a niche that complements his mainstream relational optimization achievements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Central South University
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