Kate Shao
Community Manager at CelerData
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Shao is a community-focused leader with six years of experience building developer ecosystems around data and open-source projects, currently growing the StarRocks community at PhoenixAI. She combines event strategy, developer relations, and storytelling to turn technical users into contributors—supporting first PRs, amplifying user success stories, and organizing everything from global summits to local meetups. Previously she was the inaugural Community Manager for Milvus at Zilliz, helping scale the project’s visibility and partnerships during a critical growth phase. Fluent in both technical and commercial contexts thanks to experience in recruitment, account management, and a Master of Business from ANU, she excels at connecting teams across cultures and time zones. Notably, her career shows a pattern of stepping into early-stage communities and turning them into vibrant ecosystems that sustain long-term engagement.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Applied Foreign Languages, Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Foreign Languages at National Chiayi University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (49)
similarity-search10
weaviate10
vector-search10
javascript10
oltp10
delta-lake10
neural-search10
scenarios10
image-search10
open-source10
machine-learning10
big-data10
data-analytics10
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search10
vector-database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kateshaowanjou/starrocks
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
multi-dimensionalscenariosreal-timesub-seconddatabase
kateshaowanjou/StarRocks_Community_K
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
starrockswelcome
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