Wenyi Hu
Software Engineer at Mappedin
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenyi Hu is a software engineer with six years of experience building distributed systems and backend infrastructure, currently working on Change Data Capture and key-value storage at Cockroach Labs. A University of Waterloo computer science student, Wenyi has moved between internships and full-time roles focused on SQL query optimization, distributed transaction retry mechanisms, and production-grade cloud services. They have hands-on experience with mobile and web stacks, AWS-based serverless patterns, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack grounding. Wenyi’s background includes research into conflict retry for serverless apps, hinting at a strong interest in consistency and fault-tolerance beyond routine engineering tasks. Based in New York, they combine systems-level expertise with practical release management and cross-team delivery experience. Colleagues describe Wenyi as someone who bridges research insights and production realities to ship robust, scalable systems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (21)
cockroachdb10
high-availability10
go10
sql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
apache-kafka8
kafka8
sarama7
lucene7
information-retrieval6
android-sdk5
ios5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wenyihu6/cockroach
May 2022 - Jul 2026
Forked copy of CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:3 PRs, 5045 pushes, 1463 branches in 4 years 2 months
cloud-nativecockroachdbsql-database
wenyihu6/sarama
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka.
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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