Mike Lui
Software Engineer at Cartesian
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Lui is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building data infrastructure, hybrid edge-cloud systems, and privacy-first warehouse governance at scale. He has led critical projects at Meta and Automata—untangling two-decade-old data warehouses, implementing lineage and authorization, and designing mission-critical data ingestion for life-sciences lab automation. A proven back-end contributor to high-profile open-source work like Apache Arrow, he’s skilled at fixing deep build and interoperability issues that improve cross-language analytics workflows. Comfortable across systems languages (Rust, C++, Python, Java) and 24/7 oncall environments, he combines research rigor from his Drexel background with pragmatic production engineering. Based in Salem, MA, he champions engineering hygiene and observability practices, having migrated monitoring stacks to OpenTelemetry and Grafana. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who digs into what makes systems tick—and occasionally gets into trouble doing it.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate Computer Engineering at Drexel University
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Github Skills (13)
apache-arrow10
pandas10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
build-system9
unit-testing9
cmake8
orc7
vim6
constructor6
cython6
numpy6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
Mar 2023 - Nov 2025
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 25 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the Apache Arrow project by addressing build issues and enhancing the library's integration with other tools. This includes fixing a build issue related to incorrect variable usage and improving the support of double-conversion. Moreover, the user added support for enhanced Arrow and Pandas integration, along with bug fixes, and refactored for two pathways. Additionally, they corrected a struct chunking issue and added a missing header for the ORC adapter, ensuring compatibility and streamlined build processes.
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VANDAL/sigil2
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:207 commits, 457 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 5 months
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