Shichao Jin
Software Engineer at Roblox
Waterloo, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolShichao Jin is a database-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance DBMS and distributed systems, currently working on Postgres/Neon/RocksDB-related systems at Roblox. He led engineering at VidarDB to bring columnar storage and LSM-tree ingestion to PostgreSQL, delivering 10–70X performance improvements in analytics and ingestion workloads. Previously he was the sole database kernel engineer for ClickHouse in Canada and helped deploy an automated data placement advisor at Amazon Redshift used across 1,000+ clusters. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has a strong record of turning academic innovations (e.g., MX-tree and GPU-accelerated joins) into real-world speedups. Based in Waterloo, Iowa, he combines deep systems-level expertise with hands-on optimization that often yields order-of-magnitude gains.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Peking UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Zhejiang University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD DROP OUT Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD DROP OUT Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
427reputation
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2answers
10questions
Github Skills (53)
bigquery10
mysql10
big-data10
leveldb10
analytics10
olap10
foreign-data-wrapper10
mpp10
sql10
foreign10
clickhouse-client10
ai10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jsc0218/Other
May 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
jsc0218/PostgresForeignDataWrapper
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
It is the first foreign data wrapper introducing LSM-tree into PostgreSQL. The underneath storage engine is RocksDB.
Contributions:96 commits, 11 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 months
rocksdblsmlsm-treedatabaseforeign
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