Marvin Cai
SDE at The Apache Software Foundation
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolMarvin Cai is a backend-focused SDE with 10 years’ experience building scalable streaming and data systems, currently developing SaaS for restaurants at CloudKitchens and serving as an Apache Pulsar committer. He has deep expertise integrating Kafka semantics into Pulsar—adding producer/consumer config and interceptor support—and has built cloud-native streaming services and Kubernetes control planes at StreamNative. Previously at Amazon he designed large-scale ingestion and pipeline systems using Spark and AWS services, and he taught real-time and big-data courses at NYU Tandon. Based in Guangzhou, he combines open-source stewardship with product delivery, and is known for catching missed notifications—ping him on Slack if you need him.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering at 吉林大学
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
kafka10
pubsub10
messaging10
apache-pulsar10
back-end-development10
java10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 61 commits, 64 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marvin contributed to Apache Pulsar by implementing features related to Kafka compatibility. They added support for Kafka's ProducerConfig.CONNECTIONS_MAX_IDLE_MS_CONFIG and REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS_CONFIG, modifying the PulsarKafkaProducer. In addition, the user implemented a wrapper around Kafka's ProducerInterceptor to handle ProducerConfig.INTERCEPTOR_CLASSES_CONFIG. Further contributions include supporting Kafka's ConsumerConfig.MAX_POLL_RECORDS_CONFIG and ConsumerConfig.INTERCEPTOR_CLASSES_CONFIG in PulsarKafkaConsumer.
event-streamingpulsarmessaging-systemstreamingapache
Burlesque1/D3_Lab
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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