niubell
Infrastructure Engineer at PingCAP
Beijing, China
Summary
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Rockstarniubell is an experienced Infrastructure Engineer based in Beijing with 11 years focused on backend systems and database proxy infrastructure. They have contributed significant core functionality and bug fixes to prominent open-source MySQL proxy projects like kingshard and Xiaomi’s Gaea, working on connection handling, transaction management, packet I/O, and runtime configuration. Comfortable operating at the intersection of networking, database protocols, and system reliability, they’ve implemented features for connection counters, slow/error command tracking, and dynamic config reloads. Known for pragmatic code that improves production stability, they bring deep hands-on expertise in building and hardening high-performance proxy layers for MySQL.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
database-management10
transactionscope10
transaction10
proxy10
web-proxy10
go10
packet10
transaction-manager10
proxy-server10
backend10
middleware10
back-end-development10
proxies10
mysql10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
XiaoMi/Gaea
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Gaea is a mysql proxy, it's developed by xiaomi b2c-dev team.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 19 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Niubell primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `Gaea` project, a MySQL proxy. They added core functionalities like direct connection handling, including connection setup, handshake processes, and packet writing/reading. The user also implemented command execution and transaction management features within the proxy. These contributions indicate a focus on core proxy functionality and database interaction.
mysql-proxymiddlewaredatabase
niubell/tidb
Sep 2018 - Feb 2026
TiDB is a distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 5 months
databasemysqltidb
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