Xin Sun
Beijing, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Sun is a multilingual research professional and MPA candidate at UCL with 11 years of cross-cultural experience spanning political consulting, business management, and public relations in North Africa and Beijing. She combined hands-on project negotiation on an 84-km Algerian highway and dispute resolution for CITIC with market research and client-facing event leadership, demonstrating commercial impact in infrastructure projects. A native Chinese speaker fluent in Arabic and English, she pairs deep regional knowledge from a BA in Arabic and an exchange at Jordan Media Institute with practical digital skills in Stata, Microsoft Office and multimedia tools. Early roles at the Saudi Embassy and ByteDance sharpened her communications, social media and influencer operations chops, while her translation work supported complex procurement and legal processes. Less obvious is her technical contribution to open-source distributed systems—contributing backend and database fixes to Apache HBase that improved replication and group management—highlighting an uncommon blend of policy, language and systems-level problem solving. She is focused on ESG learning and applying interdisciplinary methods to policy and business challenges across the Middle East and beyond.
10 years of coding experience
Exchange Student, Arabic Language and Literature, Exchange Student, Arabic Language and Literature at Jordan Media InstituteBachelor of Arts in Arabic, Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, GPA: 3.86/4, Bachelor of Arts in Arabic, Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, GPA: 3.86/4 at Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityUniversity College London
Github Skills (9)
javas10
hbase10
databases10
replication10
java10
database10
zookeeper9
testing8
hdfs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Apache HBase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 124 commits, 93 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Xin primarily contributed to the Apache HBase project by addressing various issues related to replication, normalizer, and RSGroup functionality. Their work involved modifications to replication endpoints, sources, and managers, as well as enhancements to the region normalizer's behavior. They also resolved a performance issue in the ReplicationStatisticsChore. In addition, the user made contributions related to RSGroup configuration and related improvements, which directly impacted the database's performance and management capabilities.
apache-hbaseapachedatabasejavahbase
ddupg/hbase
Nov 2019 - Nov 2024
Mirror of Apache HBase
Contributions:337 pushes, 129 branches in 5 years
apache-hbaseconnectorapachedatastreamhtaccess
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