Tai-lin Chu
Founding Staff Software Engineer at UserVoice
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTai-lin Chu is a Founding Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building robust backend systems and developer-facing tools. He combines startup leadership at Fathom with hands-on engineering at UserVoice, applying deep systems and database expertise to production problems. An active open-source contributor, Tai-lin has improved high-profile Go projects—like go-mysql and gocraft/dbr—by hardening replication, GTID handling, and cross-database query builders. His background spans full-stack and systems work (including low-level terminal input and mouse handling in termbox-go) and reflects a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and extensibility. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA and brings a pattern-driven approach to refactoring critical paths and resolving subtle concurrency and interoperability bugs.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (25)
postgresql10
mysql10
terminal-application10
mouse10
go10
sql10
terminal-ui10
gtid10
replication10
mariadb9
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
database-design9
data-structures8
database8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gocraft/dbr
Sep 2015 - Dec 2021
Additions to Go's database/sql for super fast performance and convenience.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 8 reviews, 70 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tai-lin implemented a significant update to the dbr library, introducing support for PostgreSQL, enhancing SQL statement compatibility, and modularizing syntax support for extensibility. They refactored the `SelectStmt` and `InsertStmt` structs and associated methods, improving the library's core functionality. The user also addressed several bug fixes related to null type handling, array handling, and interpolation. These changes directly impacted the library's database interaction capabilities, especially in query building and data loading.
golangsuper-fastsql-databasesqladditions
go-mysql-org/go-mysql
Sep 2017 - May 2019
a powerful mysql toolset with Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tai-lin primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the go-mysql project, specifically focusing on the binlog syncer and canal components. Their work included addressing data races, improving GTID handling, and adding features for syncing with GTID and handling MariaDB flavor. They also refactored the code to use the GTID from the dump position, and introduced functionality such as the FlushBinlog.
golangmysqlcdcreplicationtoolset
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