Kangnan Li
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKangnan Li is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with eight years of experience building large-scale distributed data serving systems and feature engineering for machine learning at Pinterest. He brings strong backend skills in Java, Spring Boot, C++, Spring Security, and systems work demonstrated by contributions to RocksDB replication (pinterest/rocksplicator), where he improved cluster management, added S3-backed backup/restore, and expanded unit test coverage. With a PhD in Chemistry & Computation from Duke and a BSc from USTC, he combines rigorous research training with pragmatic production engineering. Comfortable across DevOps and backend domains, he has a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into reliable, testable services.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry & Computation, Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry & Computation at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science, Chemical Physics, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaChongqing No.1 Middle School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
rocksdb10
javas10
helix10
java10
testing9
cloud-services8
cloud-infrastructure8
devops8
thrift8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/rocksplicator
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
RocksDB Replication
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:172 reviews, 92 commits, 102 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kangnan primarily contributed to the Rocksplicator project by enhancing the cluster management functionalities. Their work included enabling participants to register to multiple state models and filtering out non-database resources during the config generator process. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to improve the testing coverage. They also incorporated support for backing up and restoring data, with cloud storage capabilities using S3.
rocksdbreplication
kangnanli/rocksplicator
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
RocksDB Replication
Contributions:155 pushes, 92 branches in 1 year 8 months
replicationrocksdb
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