Max Huang
Senior Software Engineer at SafetyCulture
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Huang is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure, skilled in C++ and Go. He has driven reliability, high availability, and scalability across projects at Tencent’s TDSQL group and at PingCAP, the startup behind TiDB. At PingCAP he contributed to the tiflow project—improving test automation and migrating test infrastructure to the testify framework for change-data-capture and migration tooling. Now based in Sydney and working at SafetyCulture, he blends hands-on backend engineering with strong project leadership and cross-team collaboration. His academic background in circuits and systems complements a pragmatic approach to systems design and debugging. Outside core product work he maintains an active technical voice through blogging and open-source contributions that emphasize testability and production robustness.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Circuits and Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng, Circuits and Systems at Wuhan University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
testify10
test-framework10
go10
testing10
cdc9
engine9
database-management8
sql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tiflow
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
This repo maintains DM (a data migration platform) and TiCDC (change data capture for TiDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:505 reviews, 107 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to testing and debugging the `tiflow` repository. Their work focused on migrating test infrastructure to the `testify` testing framework. They also made changes in several package tests, particularly around the core features like `cdc`, `engine` and database management. Moreover, the user addressed code related issues and removed irrelevant configurations in the test scenarios.
mysqltidbdata-migrationchange-data-capturedata-capture
maxshuang/ticdc
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Change data capture for TiDB
Contributions:1 PR, 668 pushes, 95 branches in 1 year
faunadbtidbchange-data-capturedata-capturedatabase
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