Long Teng is a Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining core developer tooling and backend systems. Based in Hangzhou, he focuses on code-level infrastructure—especially Git and Gerrit—and has contributed substantive improvements to the official Git codebase, notably refactoring and extending the ls-tree command. He progressed through engineering roles at Alibaba since 2015, combining deep systems knowledge with a pragmatic approach to readability and maintainability. A computer science graduate from Hainan University, he balances production-scale responsibilities with active open-source contributions that influence widely used developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 海南大学
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Long primarily contributed to the Git source code by refactoring and extending the `ls-tree` command. Their work involved introducing and refining options like `--object-only` and making `--abbrev` effective for the command. The user also fixed bugs related to option combinations. Furthermore, the user focused on improving code readability and maintainability by renaming variables and simplifying logic within the `ls-tree` command.
Contributions:1 release, 91 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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