Xiaoman Dong
Founding Engineer at Parasail
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolXiaoman Dong is a founding engineer and seasoned backend engineer with 10+ years building high-throughput, real-time data systems across startups and large tech firms in the Bay Area. He has deep expertise in OLAP, streaming (Kafka), and cloud-native operations, demonstrated by production work on Apache Pinot (real-time distributed OLAP) and contributions that improved service discovery, TLS support, and stability of broker/server startup paths. His career spans core roles at Parasail, Nuro, StarTree, Stripe, Uber, and HP Vertica, where he led performance-sensitive database and streaming projects and owned complex execution and join logic. Equally comfortable architecting and shipping, he bridges low-level systems optimization with cloud DevOps — recently speaking about fully managed Kubernetes clusters. A pragmatic problem-solver with roots in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua, he brings a systems-first mindset to scaling LLM infrastructure and real-time analytics.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
helix10
java10
api-design9
grpc8
system-design8
docker-swarm6
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docker6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:97 reviews, 15 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Xiaoman focused on enhancing the Apache Pinot codebase by implementing and refactoring features related to instance configuration and service discovery. This included modifications to server and broker startup processes, enabling the use of TLS ports, and adding support for table names with dots. They also addressed a bug in the GrpcBrokerRequestHandler and refactored streaming transformation code, contributing to the overall stability and functionality of the Pinot platform. The user's work is centered on improving the operational aspects of the system.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
dongxiaoman/incubator-pinot
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Apache Pinot (Incubating) - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:2 PRs, 232 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 6 months
incubatingrealtimeolapapachedatastore
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