Wink Yao
Singapore
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Top SchoolWink Yao is a Singapore-based software engineer and open-source maintainer with 11 years of experience building distributed databases and developer ecosystems. As a long-time contributor and maintainer of PingCAP’s TiDB and a steering committee member for TiKV, he has driven kernel-level features, DDL robustness, and SQL/parser improvements that bolster cloud-native transactional workloads. He transitioned into developer relations and community leadership, leading global DevEx and launching platforms like ossinsight.io and ask.pingcap.com to grow adoption of TiDB Serverless. Earlier work includes co-founding a startup and authoring Qihoo360’s Atlas MySQL proxy, reflecting deep operational knowledge of high-performance data systems. Known for blending low-level database engineering with community-first product instincts, he focuses on making complex distributed systems reliable and approachable for developers.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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Github Skills (16)
ddl10
go10
sql10
back-end-development10
mysql9
database-design9
database-administration9
parser8
parse8
parsing8
tidb6
pid6
conflict6
process-list6
database6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tidb
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
TiDB - the open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for modern applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Database AdministratorContributions:52 releases, 20 reviews, 273 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Wink primarily contributed to the TiDB database's backend, focusing on enhancing the Data Definition Language (DDL) and table functionalities. Their commits added validation checks, corrected error messages, and refactored the handling of character set and collation settings, improving data integrity and code maintainability. They also added new features to the parser, particularly in supporting "lock table" and "unlock table" syntax and providing better compatibility.
ai-poweredtidbserverlesshtapreal-time
winkyao/join-order-benchmark
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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