Wenqi Mou is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems at Datadog, PingCAP, Apple, and Dell EMC. She specializes in backend infrastructure, storage, and streaming systems, having contributed notable stability and performance fixes to the open-source Pravega project and engineered the key-value metadata store behind iCloud object storage. Wenqi has a track record of solving production bottlenecks—scaling multi-petabyte clusters, mitigating throttling to increase single-shard throughput 5x, and reducing disk usage by 40% through column-level TTL. Comfortable across cloud-native deployments and low-level client libraries, she also built Kubernetes operators and Rust clients for streaming storage. Based in Salem, MA, Wenqi blends deep debugging instincts with experimental rigor from her Carnegie Mellon master’s background to deliver resilient, high-performance systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Control, Bachelor's degree Control at Harbin Institute of Technology
Master's degree electrical and computer engineering, Master's degree electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Pravega - Streaming as a new software defined storage primitive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 reviews, 21 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Wenqi contributed to the Pravega project by addressing various issues related to the system's back-end functionalities. They updated the Bookkeeper image, fixed external connectivity errors in Kubernetes deployments, and made performance optimizations by making getRemainingBytes asynchronous. Furthermore, the user added features like multi-directory support for ledgers and journals, and also addressed memory leaks. The work demonstrates a focus on improving the stability, performance, and feature set of the distributed streaming storage system.
Contributions:59 commits, 11 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
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