Summary
Jian Fang is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 9 years of recent industry experience and a deep background that spans research and production systems from his PhD in ECE. He designs and implements distributed databases, high-performance networking protocols, and security-conscious enterprise systems, with hands-on expertise in NoSQL, in-memory KV stores, and Linux kernel-level work. Jian helped build Amazon Athena from the ground up and later drove distributed SQL integrations and transactional K/V storage at Futurewei, winning a presidential award for open-source contributions. He combines protocol and algorithm design with pragmatic system architecture, routinely bridging storage, query engines, and network transport. Known to call himself a “lazy coder,” he focuses on elegant, high-impact solutions that automate complexity and reduce operational toil.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University