Mars Lan
Senior Staff Engineer at Cribl
United States
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Top SchoolMars Lan is a Senior Staff Engineer and founder-turned-operator with nine years of experience building data infrastructure, metadata platforms, and developer-facing systems. He co-founded Metaphor Data (acquired by KPMG after a $10M raise) to commercialize lessons from LinkedIn’s open-source DataHub, where he previously led a 16-engineer team building core metadata services. Equally comfortable from Verilog to JavaScript, Mars combines deep academic training (PhD/MS, UCLA) with hands-on contributions to widely used projects like DataHub and cross-platform mobile modules. His strengths lie in shipping robust backend and DevOps improvements—such as automated test coverage and build enhancements—that raise engineering velocity and reliability. A practiced speaker and writer on metadata, governance, and open-source security, he blends product instincts with research rigor to make data discoverable, governed, and AI-ready.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Research Student Computer Science, Research Student Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology 名古屋工業大学ME Computer Systems Engineering, ME Computer Systems Engineering at University of AucklandUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)
ios10
react-native10
java10
javas10
android10
in-app-purchase10
jacoco10
gradlew10
gradle10
billing9
debug9
debugging9
cicd9
testng9
appstore9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 120 reviews, 514 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mars's contributions primarily involve enhancing the codebase through the introduction of automated code coverage reporting and build system improvements. Their work included the addition of JaCoCo for backend and web code coverage and the integration of code coverage for TestNG-based tests. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the build configuration to enable code coverage and incorporated several dependency updates within the build files. These changes resulted in improved test coverage and a more robust development workflow.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
hyochan/react-native-iap
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
In App Purchase module for React Native!
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mars primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements for the React Native In-App Purchase module. Their work includes addressing an Android build issue, providing a dummy value for a required argument to prevent crashes, and implementing fixes for iOS, such as preventing warnings and improving error handling. The user also improved the error handling by utilizing localized descriptions. The user focused on Android and iOS native code.
react-native-iapreactreact-nativein-app-purchaseamazon
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