Tao He
Senior Software Engineer at Alibaba Group
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolTao He is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-performance back-end systems, currently driving distributed data and ML-serving projects at Alibaba in Chaoyang District, Beijing. He has deep hands-on expertise in in-memory data management and graph computing—contributing to CNCF vineyard, GraphScope, and large-scale OLAP and LLM-serving initiatives like PolyScope and Unicron. An active open-source contributor, Tao has fixed critical bugs and improved reliability in widely used projects such as pandas, Apache Arrow, and vLLM, demonstrating care for interoperability, performance, and test coverage. His work spans low-level memory and serialization issues to deployment and build automation, and he’s comfortable across C++, Python, and systems tooling. Notably, he balances production-grade engineering with community maintenance—keeping a university LaTeX thesis template and multiple language-specific projects healthy—reflecting a pragmatic attention to detail beyond core product features.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang UniversityMaster of Computer Science, Computer Science And Application, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science And Application at 北京航空航天大学
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (94)
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-cpp-apiv3/etcd-cpp-apiv3
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
The etcd-cpp-apiv3 is a C++ library for etcd's v3 client APIs, i.e., ETCDCTL_API=3.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 7 reviews, 136 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tao primarily updated and improved the C++ library for etcd's v3 client APIs. The contributions involved updating protobuf definitions, implementing locking mechanisms, enhancing watch functionality, and improving transaction support within the library. Code changes indicate modifications to core components like the Watcher and Transaction classes, as well as updates to the build system and documentation, suggesting a focus on functionality and stability.
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alibaba/GraphScope
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
🔨 🍇 💻 🚀 GraphScope: A One-Stop Large-Scale Graph Computing System from Alibaba | 一站式图计算系统
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 833 reviews, 185 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tao contributed significantly to the build and deployment processes of the GraphScope project. They implemented scripts to configure the environment and install dependencies. Furthermore, the user was involved in the upgrade of core dependencies like vineyard, and boost, highlighting their efforts in maintaining the project's stability. The user also ensured the correct operation of the system by addressing potential errors during the build, testing, and deployment.
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