Mingxi Wu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingxi Wu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and product-oriented engineering leader with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science, known for building commercial-grade database systems and cloud-native graph AI platforms. He has led TigerGraph through product pivots and executive roles—CTO and interim CEO—shipping flagship features like GSQL, TigerVector, and GraphRAG while scaling engineering teams and operational processes across 100+ engineers. His work bridges deep research (award-winning papers at SIGMOD, KDD, VLDB) and practical systems: query compilers, distributed fault-tolerant data replication, DSLs for broad data access, and performance diagnostic tooling. At GitHub he contributed key tooling for the TigerGraph ecosystem, including data-splitting utilities and LDBC benchmark scripts that underpin large-scale graph loading and testing. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering, patents, and P&L-driven product strategy, he excels at turning statistical theory and graph analytics into high-moat, developer-accessible products. Based in California, he combines academic rigor with a habit of learning through wide, serendipitous collaborations beyond formal study.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Fudan UniversityEngineer as Leader UC Berkeley Executive Education, Engineer as Leader UC Berkeley Executive Education at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (6)
gsql10
bash10
graph-database10
database9
database-design9
databases9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tigergraph/ecosys
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
TigerGraph Ecosystem
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 249 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mingxi's primary contribution focused on developing and enhancing tools for the TigerGraph ecosystem. They implemented a utility (`tgsplit.sh`) to split large data files, crucial for concurrent loading into the graph database. Further contributions included adding a demo for the Twitter deep-link functionality and steps for reproducing a Neo4j benchmark, demonstrating expertise in graph database concepts and related benchmark testing. The user also updated and expanded GSQL scripts used for the LDBC benchmark.
ecosystemdatabasegraph-databasetigergraphgsql
tigergraph/graph-database-benchmark
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
TigerGraph Graph Database Benchmark Report - Tigergraph, JanusGraph, Amazon Neptune, Neo4j, Arangodb
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
amazonneptunereportbenchmarkdatabase
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