Panfeng Zhou
Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPanfeng Zhou is a Senior Staff Engineer with nine years of professional experience and deep expertise in database storage engine design across row, column, document, and intelligent stores. He has a proven track record implementing commercial database kernels at Sybase/SAP (ASE and HANA projects) and now leads storage-focused engineering at Alibaba Cloud, blending C/C++ systems engineering with Linux-native tooling. His Ph.D. research on multidimensional and spatio-temporal access methods informs practical optimizations for OLTP, OLAP, and NoSQL workloads, and his GitHub focus on performance reflects that applied research mindset. Comfortable across on-disk and in-memory architectures, he brings rare end-to-end kernel experience from legacy store internals to modern intelligent storage advisors. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, performance-first solutions that translate academic ideas into production-grade database systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Database, Ph.D., Database at Northeastern UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Hunan University
Github Skills (26)
golang10
database10
sql9
go9
scale9
serverless9
elastic8
embeddable8
tidb8
mysql8
postgresql7
foundationdb7
c-language7
cloud-native7
distributed-database7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gfandada/gserver
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:288 commits, 277 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
gfandada/gserver_demo
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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