Jianfeng Jia
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJianfeng Jia is a software engineer with 13 years of experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Irvine, currently building scalable systems at Google from Sunnyvale. His research and industry work focus on large-scale data processing, databases, and data visualization, bridging academic rigor with production-grade engineering. He has contributed to Apache AsterixDB, adding binary data types and parsing/printing capabilities, reflecting a knack for low-level data representation and open-source collaboration. Earlier roles span research at Sogou, internships at Sumo Logic and SRCH2, and a strong foundation from Xiamen University (BS/MS), giving him deep experience across search, analytics, and platform engineering. Colleagues rely on him for clean, pragmatic solutions that connect visualization needs to efficient back-end storage and processing. He combines a research mindset with hands-on backend development, often tackling the less obvious plumbing that makes data systems robust.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Xiamen UniversityPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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588reached
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Github Skills (10)
data-handling10
javas10
binary-data10
datatypes10
java10
base649
hex9
actor6
playframework6
scala6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/asterixdb
Nov 2014 - Jun 2017
Mirror of Apache AsterixDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jianfeng contributed significantly to the development of the AsterixDB project by adding new data types such as `ByteArrayPointable` and `Binary`, along with corresponding parsing and printing functions. These additions include the implementation of hex and base64 constructors for binary data and relevant helper functions, such as `sub-binary` and `find-binary`, which interact with existing types. Furthermore, they fixed issues and refactored existing code.
dbmsparquetasterixdbolapapache
JavierJia/cs241
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:67 commits in 2 months
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