Yi Wu
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Wu is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a focused 4-year tenure in distributed storage and database systems and over a decade of broader industry experience. He has built deep storage expertise across leading projects and companies—contributing to RocksDB and BlobDB at Facebook, leading storage-engine and cloud optimizations for TiKV at PingCAP, and currently working on data platform engineering at Snowflake. Yi is an active open-source contributor to FoundationDB, where his backend and database work touched disk queue management, checksumming, and encryption support—demonstrating attention to both performance and data integrity. His background spans both frontend product work at Yahoo and low-level systems innovation, giving him a rare full-stack appreciation for how storage design impacts user-facing services.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
foundationdb10
c-language10
key-value-store10
checksum10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
checker10
encryption9
transactional9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
apple/foundationdb
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:459 reviews, 51 commits, 101 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the backend and database aspects of the FoundationDB project. Their work included implementing changes related to disk queue management and checksum algorithms within the `DiskQueue.actor.cpp` file. They were also involved in fixing size-related issues, updating comments, and supporting the use of `xxhash3` for checksumming. Furthermore, the user made changes to `KeyValueStoreMemory.actor.cpp` and related files to enable encryption functionality and improve performance.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
sfc-gh-yiwu/foundationdb
Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:287 pushes, 160 branches in 1 year 7 months
transactionalfoundationdbdatabasekey-value-storekey-value
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