Yang Zhifeng
Senior Staff Engineer at Ant Financial
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Zhifeng is a Senior Staff Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and leading distributed systems and databases, currently based in Sunnyvale. At Ant Financial he spearheaded SQL module development and later led the RootService team for OceanBase, driving metadata management, elastic resource scheduling, and autonomous failure recovery for a production-grade distributed RDBMS used across Alibaba/Ant. His background includes key contributions to Baidu’s cloud infrastructure—particularly a distributed file system—and a master's from Peking University focused on search, web mining, and distributed systems. Known for bridging low-level storage and high-level SQL/optimizer design, he also implemented HBase compatibility on OceanBase, reflecting a knack for multi-model integrations and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
master, search engine, web mining, distributed system, master, search engine, web mining, distributed system at Peking University
Github Skills (28)
mysql-database10
oltp10
bigquery10
postgresql10
relational10
mysql10
high-availability10
vector-database10
paxos10
analytics10
distributed-computing10
compatibility10
olap10
scale10
sql10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yangzhifeng/oceanbase
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
A distributed, banking suitable, open-source related database featuring high scalability and high compatibility.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
oltpaccumulotimeseries-databasebankinghigh-scalability
yangzhifeng/mypl
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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