Yanqin Jin
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanqin Jin is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on high-performance storage and distributed systems, currently at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her career includes senior engineering roles on FoundationDB at Snowflake and core contributions to RocksDB while at Facebook, where she improved transactions, user-defined timestamps, compaction, and blob file handling. She blends deep research training (PhD, UC San Diego) with production-grade engineering, having moved ideas from academic projects into widely used open-source databases. Notably, her contributions to the famous facebook/rocksdb repo reflect hands-on work on critical database paths that power large-scale services. Yanqin brings a track record of solving low-level systems challenges and shipping robust, scalable storage features in both industry and open-source contexts.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
data-structures10
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
data-structure10
database10
testing10
concurrency9
filesystem8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/rocksdb
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1 release, 1295 reviews, 617 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yanqin has made several contributions to improve the RocksDB library's functionalities and efficiency. Their commits involved modifying and refactoring code related to key aspects of the database system, including core logic, indexing and compaction. In particular, the user's work includes adding or improving support for functionalities such as transactions, user-defined timestamps, and the handling of blob files.
persistent-storagebigtablefast-storagelsm-treedatabase
riversand963/rocksdb
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 3706 pushes in 4 years 10 months
persistent-storagelmdbnosql-databaseleveldbfast-storage
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