Tzu-li Tai
Senior Manager, Engineering at The Apache Software Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTzu-Li Tai is a Senior Manager of Engineering at Confluent and an Apache Flink Committer and PMC member with 11 years building data-intensive, distributed systems. He has driven streaming compute and stateful-function initiatives at companies like Splunk and Ververica, and now leads the engineering team behind Confluent Tableflow. His open-source work includes implementing the FlinkKinesisConsumer and state management utilities, reflecting a deep focus on exactly-once semantics and resilient stream processing. Comfortable moving between hands-on connector development and leadership, he combines production-grade engineering with an academic grounding in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University. Based in Vancouver, he’s known for tackling complex resharding and state bootstrap challenges that many teams encounter only in large-scale deployments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Department of Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
319reputation
9kreached
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Github Skills (25)
amazon-kinesis10
apache-flink10
back-end-development10
big-data10
flink-sql10
kin10
java10
javas10
data-streaming10
html10
state-management10
data-engineering9
protobuf8
protobuffer8
data-serialization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink-statefun
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Apache Flink Stateful Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 489 commits, 309 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tzu-li's commits focus on the development and implementation of features within the Apache Flink Stateful Functions framework, including enhancements to existing functionalities and the addition of new components. This is evident through the user's work on aspects related to the creation of job graphs, as well as introducing features such as the StatefulFunctionsSavepointCreator and related utilities. The user also demonstrates knowledge of state management through changes involving state bootstrap functions and the use of state-related classes, which are central to the design and operation of the framework.
flinkapachebig-datasparkapache-flink
apache/flink-web
Aug 2016 - Aug 2021
Apache Flink Website
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 56 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tzu-li primarily contributed to rebuilding the website, indicating a focus on content updates and potentially backend code adjustments related to website functionality. The commits involve changes to HTML files and the inclusion of release notes, suggesting work on the website's structure and information. The changes involve modifying content and the release notes for the Apache Flink website.
flinkapachebig-datasparkapache-flink
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