Maosong Fu
Sr. Mgr., Software Engineering, Interactive Query at Twitter
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaosong Fu is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale real-time analytics and interactive query platforms at Twitter from San Francisco. He has driven teams that democratize big-data analysis—bringing SQL and notebook interfaces (Presto, Druid, Zeppelin, Hive) to non-engineers for BI, prototyping, and production debugging at Twitter scale. An original author and long-time maintainer of Twitter Heron, he pairs deep distributed-systems and streaming expertise with hands-on backend development (including significant HDFS uploader work in Apache Heron). Maosong combines technical ownership with product-facing impact, turning complex streaming infrastructure into accessible query surfaces that accelerate decision-making and revenue generation. He also has a strong academic foundation (MS from Carnegie Mellon) and a track record of shipping high-download consumer and research tools earlier in his career, reflecting both breadth and practical delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster, Computer Software Engineering, Master, Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
javas10
stream-processing10
hdfs10
back-end-development10
java10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-heron
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:314 commits, 114 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Maosong contributed significant enhancements to the Apache Heron stream processing engine. Their work primarily focused on implementing HDFS uploader functionality, including the creation of the HdfsUploader class and associated utilities. They also refactored and added various methods. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to the invocation order of resources.
fault-tolerantstream-processingtwitterheronstreaming
shadowfax-ring/martial-arts
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:33 commits in 3 days
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