Yi Liang
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYi Liang is a software engineer based in San Jose with 10 years of experience building distributed systems and big data platforms. He currently works at Google and is an Apache HBase committer, contributing server-side fixes and HBase–Spark integration improvements to one of the most widely used open-source NoSQL stores. His background includes senior roles at Palo Alto Networks and IBM, where he focused on scalable data pipelines and backend engineering using Java and Scala. Yi holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Iowa State University and brings deep OS and database expertise to production-grade systems. Known for practical problem-solving, he often surfaces subtle configuration and synchronization bugs in secured, large-cluster environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
hbase10
databases10
back-end-development10
java10
database10
spark9
apache-hadoop8
sql5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Apache HBase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:23 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the Apache HBase project, focusing on server-side logic and database interactions. Their work involved bug fixes related to table synchronization in secured clusters and resolving issues with bulk loading functionalities within the HBase-Spark integration. Additionally, the user made modifications to configuration management, ensuring correct representation of compound configurations.
apache-hbaseapachedatabasejavahbase
YiSoEasy/docker-hbase
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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