Xianyang Liu
Senior Director, Product Development Engineering And Site Manager Of Technology Development at Intel Corporation
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolXianyang Liu is a seasoned semiconductor and engineering leader with over two decades of experience and 11 years in senior leadership at Intel, currently serving as Senior Director of Product Development Engineering and Site Manager of Technology Development in Shanghai. He has a strong track record managing large cross-functional teams (100+ engineers) across product development, quality & reliability, and site operations for CPU and chipset manufacturing. Technically grounded from a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, he pairs executive oversight with hands-on contributions to backend and data projects in open-source ecosystems. His GitHub work spans influential projects like Apache Spark, Parquet, Iceberg and Ray, where he focused on performance, robustness, and tooling integrations—an unusual blend for a hardware-site executive. Known for building organizations from the ground up (notably at GAPT) and driving process-driven engineering improvements, he combines operational rigor with practical software development chops. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges deep manufacturing expertise and modern data/AI infrastructure efforts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Github Skills (46)
pytorch10
spark10
python10
testing10
memory-management10
big-data10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
java10
scala10
javas10
orchestrate10
performance-optimization10
sql10
fileio10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/parquet-java
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Apache Parquet Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 reviews, 11 PRs, 175 comments in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Xianyang primarily contributed to the Apache Parquet Java project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to file rewriting, bloom filters, and column index handling. Their work involved modifications to core classes like `ParquetRewriter`, `ParquetFileWriter`, and testing utilities, indicating a focus on improving the efficiency and reliability of the Parquet format. The user also addressed issues regarding encryption and schema handling, ensuring data integrity during transformations. The contributions demonstrate expertise in the internal workings of the Parquet file format.
avroparquetapachebig-dataapache-parquet
apache/iceberg
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:429 reviews, 11 commits, 58 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Xianyang's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Iceberg project's capabilities related to dropping and purging tables within Spark. This included supporting the PURGE flag in the DROP TABLE command, implementing related test cases, and modifying existing code to accommodate the changes. The contributions are observed across Spark versions 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4. Additional contributions involved optimizing the deletion of metadata files to prevent potential issues.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
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