Yaoming Zhan
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
California, United States
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Top SchoolYaoming Zhan is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in systems infrastructure with nine years of experience building and optimizing distributed systems at LinkedIn. He has driven large-scale improvements—leading TiDB integration and a transport-layer overhaul of Espresso that delivered 10x scalability and marked latency reductions—while also achieving notable Netty HTTP/2 performance gains. His hands-on background spans backend, database engineering, and production resilience work, including contributions to the widely used open-source TiDB project where he improved debugging, profiling, and authentication support. Based in California, Yaoming combines rigorous academic training (MS CS, UC Irvine) with practical incident-hardening expertise, and he has a knack for surfacing subtle operational fixes that materially increase availability and developer observability.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, IrvineHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shenzhen Foreign Languages SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Brandeis University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (14)
databases10
mysqli10
go10
server10
mysql10
database10
server-side10
http9
distributed-database9
sql9
user-authentication9
authentication9
debugging8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tidb
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 7 PRs, 32 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yaoming primarily focused on enhancing the server's HTTP status routes within the TiDB database. They moved routes to a mux router, ensuring proper functionality for debugging and profiling endpoints. Significant changes involved modifying the `http_status.go` file to incorporate these changes, including updates to pprof paths and the failpoint API. Further contributions included implementing authentication plugin support, along with code changes to the executor and session modules.
agentictidbvector-searchdistributed-databasedistributed-transactions
yzhan1/tidb
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial
Contributions:54 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
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