Xiaoyu Yao
Software Engineer at Cloudera Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarXiaoyu Yao is a software engineer and technical lead at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with 11 years of experience building distributed storage systems. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she focuses on backend architecture for scalable, reliable object and file storage, contributing significantly to HDFS, Ozone, and the broader Apache Hadoop ecosystem as a PMC committer. Her work spans adding plugin support and hardening datanode services, improving container protocols and integration tests to ensure production-grade reliability. Beyond day-to-day engineering, she’s active in open source maintenance and cross-project bug fixes, demonstrating a knack for both deep-system design and meticulous code hygiene. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex storage protocols into extensible, testable implementations that keep large-scale data platforms robust.
11 years of coding experience
Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
object-storage10
back-end-development10
java10
apache-hadoop9
software-quality9
distributed-systems9
container-management9
testing8
hadoop6
ubuntu6
data-structures4
algorithms4
data-structure4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ozone
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:361 reviews, 208 commits, 221 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Xiaoyu primarily contributed to adding support for plugins in the HDDS Datanode Service, involving changes to the `HddsDatanodeService.java` and `OzoneHddsDatanodeService.java` files, suggesting a focus on extending the container service functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes to integration tests to accommodate the new plugin features. The user fixed whitespaces and license issues in a previous HDFS branch, and also resolved issues related to handling block tokens in the container protocol. The user's work impacts the core functionality of the object store's datanode.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
apache/hadoop
Apr 2015 - May 2021
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 621 commits, 142 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Xiaoyu Brahma Reddy Battula, in collaboration with xyao, identified and addressed type-related errors in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) codebase, specifically within the hadoop-hdfs-httpfs module. The user's commits primarily focus on correcting typos in Java code across the Hadoop distributed file system, ensuring accuracy within the HTTPFS functionality and the related data structures. Brahma also addressed and fixed a bug in the system.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
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