Tao Qin
Senior Software Engineer at alibaba
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolTao Qin is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-availability and distributed systems, currently driving backend development at Alibaba from Beijing. With a PhD from Tsinghua and prior senior roles at Microsoft and Huawei, he has deep expertise in big data and streaming technologies including Spark, Storm, and Kafka. He contributed to Microsoft's notable open-source Mobius project, enhancing C#/F# bindings for Apache Spark with improved DataFrame APIs, logging, multithreading, and comprehensive unit tests. Tao blends research-grade rigor with production-focused engineering, having moved from telecom platform reliability to large-scale cloud data processing. Colleagues know him for solving subtle concurrency and performance issues that quietly improve system robustness.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's degree, Laser and Optical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Laser and Optical Engineering at Shandong University
Github Skills (9)
dataframes10
fsharp10
apache-spark10
csharp10
dataframe10
dotnet-core10
streaming9
unit-testing9
big-data9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Mobius
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
C# and F# language binding and extensions to Apache Spark
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 103 PRs, 39 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tao primarily focused on enhancing the C# and F# bindings for Apache Spark. Their contributions included fixing bugs in the command-line scripts, adding and improving DataFrame APIs. The user also developed unit tests to validate the newly added API functionality. Additionally, they incorporated logging and multi-threading capabilities, thereby improving the worker's reliability and performance.
fsharpnear-real-timeextensionskafka-streamingbigdata
qintao1976/Mobius
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:169 pushes, 43 branches in 8 months
apachesparkscalaapache-sparkextensions
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