Lixun Peng
Senior Expert at Huawei
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLixun Peng is a Senior Expert and cloud-native database engine architect with 13 years of experience designing, optimizing, and operating MySQL-based systems at scale. He began as an algorithm prodigy admitted early to NUAA’s ACM/ICPC class and has since focused deeply on MySQL internals—fixing bugs, adding features, and translating High Performance MySQL into Chinese. At Alibaba and Taobao he built production-ready patches (multi-source/multi-master replication, thread memory monitoring, flashback, kill-idle-transaction) that were upstreamed into MariaDB and used across large RDS fleets he helped run. Now leading a team at Huawei, he combines hands-on kernel-level database development with product-grade operational know-how and community stewardship as a MariaDB committer. He’s also authoring a book on maintaining MySQL in production, reflecting a rare blend of academic algorithmic background and pragmatic, production-first engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 0406305, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 0406305 at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Zhejiang University of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
innodb10
json10
mysql-server10
storage-engine10
mysql10
mariadb10
galera10
geographical-information-system10
vector-database10
amazon-web-services10
sql-server10
sql10
rdbms10
nearest-neighbor-search10
relational-databases10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
plinux/mysql-patchs
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
MariaDB/server
Apr 2013 - Jul 2017
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 3 months
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
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