Yee
Summary
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RockstarSherman Ye is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and nearly a decade focused on graph databases, having started the open-source Nebula Graph project in 2018. He previously held senior engineering roles at Ant Financial and Facebook, and has a history of founding and leading technical teams from startups to enterprise. Deeply hands-on, Sherman contributes core backend improvements to Nebula—optimizing performance, memory usage, and configuration while introducing expression evaluation and modern C++ patterns. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines operator-level product judgment with low-level systems expertise, bridging production deployment concerns (Docker/build scripts) and database internals. His track record shows a rare blend of engineering craftsmanship and entrepreneurial drive to scale a high-availability, horizontally scalable open-source database.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
code-optimization10
databases10
docker10
c-language10
database-administration10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
graph-database10
admin10
dockers10
database10
smart-pointers9
data-structures8
data-structure8
go4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vesoft-inc/nebula-graph
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability. This is an archived repo for v2.5 only, from 2.6.0 +, NebulaGraph switched back to https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1182 reviews, 148 commits, 550 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Yee made contributions focused on optimizing and refining the database structure and functionality of the Nebula Graph database. They addressed issues with load configuration intervals, variable syntax, and the overall system's memory usage, indicating a focus on improving the performance and stability of the database's core components. Additionally, the user worked on docker-related configurations, including build scripts and deployments, highlighting work in the development and deployment processes for the project. Furthermore, they worked on the structure of the plans nodes.
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vesoft-inc/nebula
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1220 reviews, 316 commits, 448 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yee's contributions focused on core functionality and code quality improvements within the Nebula graph database. They primarily addressed configuration issues by cleaning up and fixing load configuration interval settings, as well as optimizing code by replacing `new` expressions with smart pointer functions and making adjustments to handle variable length path structures. Additionally, the user enhanced the codebase with the introduction of a new function for evaluating expressions within the project.
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