Liu Cong
Infrastructure Engineer at PingCAP
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLiu Cong is an Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and decoupling large-scale distributed and high-performance systems, currently focusing on the OLAP storage engine for TiDB at PingCAP. He is proficient in C++, Python, Java, and Go, and has deep expertise in storage and database internals, evidenced by contributions that improved TiDB compatibility with PHPMyAdmin and fixed nuanced SQL behaviors. His career spans startup leadership as a CTO/co-founder and roles in storage engineering and R&D, giving him a blend of product-minded engineering and systems craftsmanship. Based in Shanghai, he brings a practical, test-driven approach to complex backend problems and a track record of shipping robust fixes and features in a high-profile open-source database project.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Advertising; Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Advertising; Computer Science at Wuhan University
Github Skills (11)
go10
sql10
mysql10
database9
distributed-database9
databases9
test-automation8
sql-database8
relational-databases8
distributed-transactions7
tidb7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tidb
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
TiDB - the open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for modern applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Liu focused on fixing bugs and adding features to support PHPMyAdmin compatibility within the TiDB database system. Their contributions included adding support for the `SHOW GRANTS` statement, addressing issues in the `LOCATE()` function, and modifying code related to the `executor/converter` and `ast` modules. The user also made changes to the `util/codec`, `util/types` and `session_test` code. Furthermore, they added test cases to ensure the correct functionality of the changes.
ai-poweredtidbserverlesshtapreal-time
iamxy/bank-test
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 2 months
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