Hongbin Ma
VP Of Engineering at Kyligence
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHongbin Ma is a seasoned engineering leader and founding VP of Engineering at Kyligence, with over a decade building high-performance distributed data platforms based on Apache Kylin. As a long-time top committer and PMC member of Apache Kylin, he blends deep hands-on expertise in query optimization, parallel computing, and distributed databases with strategic product leadership. His earlier work at Microsoft Research Asia on the Trinity graph database and contributions at eBay underpin a consistent focus on scalable, low-latency analytics. He also contributes to surrounding open-source tooling—improving deployment scripts for Kylin and strengthening test coverage for the Apache incubator Gluten project’s ClickHouse backend—showing attention to both production robustness and cross-engine interoperability. Based in Shanghai, he pairs rigorous academic training with a pragmatic engineering approach that favors reliability, performance, and reproducible testing.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Nanjing UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (21)
spark-sql10
scripting10
testing10
test-framework10
java10
scala10
javas10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
clickhouse10
datatypes9
parquet9
vectorization8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KylinOLAP/Kylin
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
This code base is retained for historical interest only, please visit Apache Incubator Repo for latest one
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:492 commits, 3 PRs, 168 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hongbin primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the deployment and build scripts. The user added error handling, optimized existing scripts, and incorporated support for Cloudera and Hortonworks sandbox environments. The user also implemented the inclusion of a separate setenv.sh for JVM settings and native libraries.
visitolapinterestapachebig-data
apache/incubator-gluten
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines' execution to native engines.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:122 reviews, 9 commits, 112 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hongbin primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework for the Gluten project, specifically targeting the ClickHouse backend. They implemented new test cases to address and reproduce issues related to null values and data type handling within the ClickHouse integration. Furthermore, the user modified existing test suites, such as GlutenClickHouseTPCHParquetSuite, to ensure comprehensive testing and correct behavior in the ClickHouse backend, improving the reliability and accuracy of the Gluten project. The user has also added a test case to cover supported aggregates on all data types.
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