Xi Yang
Senior UX Designer at Porsche Digital China
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXi Yang is a Senior UX Designer with eight years of experience blending interaction design, user research, and service design across automotive digitalization, e-commerce, gamification, and enterprise software. Based in Shanghai, she has led the UX strategy for My Porsche app and optimized charging flows at Porsche Digital/MHP, while earlier roles at bilibili and Boston Logic honed her ability to turn research insights into scalable design systems and delightful product experiences. Trained with an MFA from RIT, she also brings a rare technical edge as a contributor to the Trino (PrestoDB) project, implementing backend performance and configuration improvements that reflect her systems-minded approach to UX. Passionate about new media and interactive visual art, Xi frequently intersects creative technology with user-centered solutions to make complex systems more usable and enjoyable.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Visual Communication Design (Interaction Design), 3.9 / 4, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Visual Communication Design (Interaction Design), 3.9 / 4 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art Design, 3.4 / 4, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art Design, 3.4 / 4 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
javas10
hive10
big-data10
query-engine10
sql10
java10
analytics9
database9
aws-s39
databases9
distributed-systems8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 1 commit, 13 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Xi primarily contributed to the Trino query engine's backend functionality, focusing on performance optimizations and configuration. They implemented caching improvements for Hive metastore operations, addressing partition cache invalidation. The user added configuration options for AWS S3 connections, specifically related to connection expiration. Additionally, they optimized filter function performance with code modifications and added compression codec configurations for spill and exchange data, enhancing data processing efficiency.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
hackeryang/trino
Jun 2022 - Nov 2024
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:1 PR, 124 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 5 months
hbasebigdatabig-datatrinodatabase
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