Tao Jiang
Engineering Manager at Infomedia Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTao Jiang is an experienced engineering manager based in Sydney with 20+ years across Infomedia, IBM, Alipay and Honeywell, now leading core services and data analytics at Infomedia. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (Java, Node.js, Python, Angular/React, iOS/Android) with cloud and data platform expertise (AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Informatica) to design and operationalize microservices and analytics pipelines. A pragmatic people and project leader, he has led large cross‑functional teams and delivered complex platform migrations, SSO implementations and high‑coverage rewrites while driving cost and reliability improvements. He contributes to notable open‑source projects—improving SQL grammars and parser fixes in Apache ShardingSphere and ANTLR grammars—reflecting deep SQL and database DDL knowledge not obvious from his manager title. Versatile and systematic, Tao consistently steps into additional technical or leadership roles to unblock delivery and mentor teams. He holds advanced training in applied mathematics and computer applications, bringing analytical rigor to engineering decisions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor Degree, Applied Mathematics at East China University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (16)
grammar10
javas10
junit10
grammars10
sql10
java10
antlr10
jtest10
mysql9
oracle8
databases8
database8
oracles8
distributed-database7
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
antlr/grammars-v4
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Grammars written for ANTLR v4; expectation that the grammars are free of actions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 24 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tao contributed significantly to the grammar definitions for the ANTLR v4 project, specifically focusing on extending the PlSql grammar. Their commits added support for various DDL statements such as `DROP USER`, `DROP CLUSTER`, `TRUNCATE CLUSTER`, `CREATE/ALTER/DROP MATERIALIZED ZONEMAP`, `CREATE/DROP LIBRARY`, and `ALTER/CREATE/DROP/ROLLBACK SEGMENT`. They also added support for ALTER VIEW. The changes primarily involved modifications to the PlSqlParser.g4 file and included corresponding example SQL files, demonstrating a strong understanding of SQL syntax and database DDL operations.
grammarparser-generatorabstract-syntax-treeexpectationgrammars
apache/shardingsphere
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tao primarily contributed to the ShardingSphere project by adding and optimizing unit tests, focusing on the `SQLTokenGenerators` and `ContextManagerBuilderParameter` components. They addressed grammar issues in the Oracle and MySQL SQL parsers, correcting the `xmlSerializeFunction` and `begin` statement. Furthermore, the user fixed a parsing error in the MySQL `cast` function and addressed issues related to the `BYTEA` type cast.
dbmsrdbmsdatabase-systemmore-featuresbigdata
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