Jingyu Zhou
Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJingyu Zhou is a senior engineer and distributed database expert now working on Snowflake's FrostDB and previously leading Apple’s open-source FoundationDB project. He has designed and delivered mission-critical, PB-scale storage systems at Apple and Google—responsible for multi-hundred-million RPS fleets, ACID transactions, backup/restore, and rolling production releases with 99.99% availability. Known for turning ambiguous product goals into clear technical roadmaps, he drove major migrations (SQLite→RocksDB), doubled throughput with a new backup system, and hardened simulation and integrity testing. An academic at heart, he holds a PhD, has published 40+ papers, served on 20+ PC committees, and blends research rigor with hands-on production engineering. Based in the Bay Area, he combines deep systems architecture skills with open-source stewardship and a strong interest in data mining and security.
4 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
foundationdb10
transactional10
key-value-store10
database-access10
key-value10
datastore10
acid10
bigtable10
document-database10
embeddable10
nosql-database10
distributed-database10
database10
kubernetes-operator9
faunadb9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HashDataInc/foundationdb
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:7 commits in 7 months
transactionalfoundationdbdatabasekey-value-storekey-value
stepbrobd/foundationdb
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
A fork of Apple/FoundationDB.
Contributions:2 commits in 18 days
macosfoundationdbapple
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