Jin Shang
Founder at Offloop
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJin Shang is a CEO and cofounder with 8 years of software engineering experience, specializing in distributed systems, databases, and machine learning engineering. A CMU MSCS graduate and NYUAD alumnus, he led development of WeChat's Feature Store and contributed C++ fixes and performance optimizations to the high-profile Apache Arrow project. He has built production feature stores at Google Vertex AI and Tencent, and earlier work on real-time Flink-based recommenders boosted click-through by 20%. Comfortable moving between research and production, Jin’s background spans academic research in algebraic structures to practical ML infrastructure across cities from Pittsburgh to Shanghai. He now focuses on building AI products and scaling data-platforms as an entrepreneur.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics; Computer Science; Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics; Computer Science; Finance at New York University Abu DhabiMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Harbin No.3 High School
Github Skills (6)
apache-arrow10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
llvm10
compiler-optimization9
openssl8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:264 reviews, 26 commits, 84 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jin primarily contributed to the C++ codebase of Apache Arrow, focusing on fixing compiler issues and enhancing the Gandiva component. Their work included resolving a compiler bug in compute kernels, fixing OpenSSL dependencies within Gandiva, and adding support for untyped nodes. Furthermore, the user implemented performance improvements by optimizing variable length output buffer allocation and addressing memory allocation issues, while also adapting the code to support LLVM 15 and opaque pointers.
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js8544/arrow
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
Contributions:12 PRs, 415 pushes, 104 branches in 1 year 4 months
apache-arrow
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