Jing Ge
Chief Technology Officer at Ververica | Original creators of Apache Flink®
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJing Ge is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Ververica with two decades of hands-on software systems experience and over a decade in senior engineering roles driving distributed data platforms. Based in Hamburg, he has led large-scale data engineering and realtime engine efforts at Ant Group and eBay, and progressed internally at Ververica from Staff Engineer to CTO while retaining a pragmatic engineering focus. An Apache Flink PMC and committer, Jing contributes directly to core connectors and file-source refactors in one of the most widely used stream-processing projects. He blends systems architecture, platform engineering, and people leadership to take complex, low-latency data systems from prototype to production. Notably, he authored a Chinese Hibernate/JPA book early in his career, reflecting long-standing depth in both tooling and developer education.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Ingenieur (Master of Computer Science) Computer Science, Diplom Ingenieur (Master of Computer Science) Computer Science at Hamburg University of Technology
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
filesystem10
java10
kafka9
data-streaming9
big-data8
back-end-development8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:434 reviews, 115 commits, 138 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jing contributed to the Apache Flink project by making code improvements and addressing issues related to file connectors. They primarily focused on refactoring code within file source components, including renaming method arguments to enhance readability and deprecating legacy file record formats. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to a Kafka connector's retries. The user's work involved modifications to core connector files, demonstrating a focus on internal improvements and maintenance.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
JingGe/leetcode
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:630 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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