Xing Lin
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXing Lin is a senior storage systems engineer with 16 years of experience, currently contributing to LinkedIn’s data lake storage and security efforts after a stint in the NetApp CTO Advanced Technology Group. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah and specializes in compression and data deduplication, with deep knowledge of SSD internals, key/value stores, and distributed object stores. Xing combines research pedigree—over 10 papers in top-tier systems conferences and program committee service—with hands-on experience in both open-source projects like Hadoop, Ceph, Spark and KVM and commercial systems such as NetApp WAFL and Dell EMC Data Domain. His open-source work includes notable backend contributions to Apache Hadoop’s ViewFS, improving robustness, delegation token handling, and operational metrics. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and at-scale storage architectures, he brings a practical, systems-oriented approach to solving data-intensive storage and security challenges.
16 years of coding experience
B.E., Software Engineering, B.E., Software Engineering at Nankai UniversityThe University of Utah
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
javas10
filesystem10
rpc10
hadoop10
java10
testing9
distributed-systems9
hdfs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hadoop
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 22 commits, 46 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Xing primarily contributed to the Apache Hadoop project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the ViewFS file system. Their work included improving exception handling, adding functionality for delegation tokens, changing the scope of internal methods within the InodeTree, and adding support for localized trash. They also addressed an issue with skipping the KeyProviderCache shutdown hook and added metrics for RPC calls and HA state monitoring.
apache-hadoophadoop
xinglin/hugo-site
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:178 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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