Noel Kwan
Product And Technical Lead, Agents at RisingWave
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolNoel Kwan is a product and technical lead with seven years of experience building low-level, high-performance systems and leading observability, performance, and reliability initiatives at RisingWave. Comfortable in Rust, Haskell and Scheme, he combines systems-level craftsmanship with product ownership—recently leading the Agents product area while contributing backend evaluation logic and SQL function support to the open-source RisingWave stream-processing project. His background spans compiler work, blockchain R&D, and developer tooling, reflecting a blend of researchy language work and pragmatic production engineering. Previously a platoon sergeant, he brings disciplined leadership and mentoring experience to fast-moving engineering teams. Known for a "grug-brained" coding persona, he nonetheless produces careful, well-tested implementations and end-to-end integrations that improve runtime correctness and performance.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PCME, PCME at Catholic Junior CollegeO'Levels, O'Levels at Hwa Chong InstitutionComputer science Programming Languages, Computer science Programming Languages at National University of Singapore
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Github Skills (17)
evaluation10
expressions10
eval10
evaluator10
expression10
sql10
rust10
testing9
front-end-development8
concurrency6
haskell6
fork6
ghc6
linux6
benchmarking6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
risingwavelabs/risingwave
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Event streaming platform for agentic AI. Continuously ingest, transform, and serve event streams in real time, at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2522 reviews, 109 commits, 1537 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Noel implemented evaluation logic for the `CONCAT_WS` expression, involving the creation of a `ConcatWsExpression` struct and its methods for evaluating the expression within a data chunk. They also added test cases and refactored existing tests. Furthermore, the user worked on binding and type checking for `concat_ws`, and integrated it into the frontend, casting inputs to varchar and creating a test for e2e.
agentic-aievent-streamdatabasestream-processingrust
kwannoel/Xmonad-config
Jul 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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