Neil Huang
Director Of Software Engineering at Couchbase
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Huang is a seasoned software engineering leader with a decade-plus background in distributed storage and data replication, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Couchbase in San Jose. He has been the technical lead for Couchbase’s Cross-DataCenter-Replication (XDCR) project and progressed through engineering and management roles, blending hands-on system design with team leadership. Prior to Couchbase he built core metadata and consistency features for FormationOne and contributed storage internals and thin-deduplication tooling at HPE-3PAR. Neil holds a B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Networking from UCLA, which underpin his low-level systems expertise and network-aware design choices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to data consistency, failover recovery, and bandwidth-efficient distributed checks, reflecting a career spent making complex storage behavior predictable and resilient.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese
Stackoverflow
36reputation
46reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (24)
asciidoc10
couchbase10
xdcr10
sql10
mocking10
confirm10
server10
database10
testing9
nosql9
json9
couchdb9
generator9
memcached9
golang9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nelio2k/goxdcr
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 101 pushes in 6 years 7 months
nelio2k/manifest
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
Top-level source repository for Couchbase Server source code and build projects
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
defoldservercouchbase-servercouchbase
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