Steven Wu
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Wu is a software engineer with 11 years building large-scale distributed systems, specializing in C/C++, in-memory storage, and real-time communication. He has driven streaming and data platform work at Apple and Netflix and now contributes to Snowflake's scalable data infrastructure. As an Apache Iceberg committer and PMC member, he has improved core data processing—adding JSON serialization and partitioning optimizations to a widely used open-source table format. Based in Bellevue, WA, Steven pairs deep systems design with hands-on backend engineering and a knack for refactoring complex data flows to improve operational efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of OregonB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at East China Normal University
Github Skills (13)
ice10
javas10
partitioning10
java10
apache-iceberg10
data-engineering10
serialization9
data-structure9
performance-optimization9
apache-flink9
data-serialization9
data-structures9
avro8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:2190 reviews, 57 commits, 294 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to Apache Iceberg, focusing on improving data processing and operational efficiency. Their work included enhancing error messages in Avro wrapper classes and adding JSON serialization for core classes like DataTaskParser and ManifestFileParser. The user's commits also involved refactoring data structures, such as DataIterator, and implementing optimizations for partition handling and range partitioning, including adding range distribution capabilities for bucket partition columns.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
stevenzwu/suro
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:84 pushes, 12 branches in 8 months
pipelinenetflixdata-sciencesparkdata-pipeline
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