Yifan Xu
Software Engineer at PingCAP
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Xu is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in distributed databases and query optimization, currently contributing to TiDB at PingCAP. He has hands-on experience shipping core query planner and optimizer improvements for an open-source MySQL-compatible distributed database, and spent time building machine learning systems during an internship at AWS. A high-achieving graduate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (B.S. CS, GPA 3.91/4.3), he bridges deep algorithmic knowledge with production-grade system engineering. Colleagues describe him as quietly focused and technically rigorous—an engineer who prefers delivering measurable performance gains over flashy demos.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, GPA 3.91/4.3, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, GPA 3.91/4.3 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (89)
postgresql10
high-availability10
heartbeat10
integrations10
tikv10
prometheus-exporter10
distributed-transactions10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
cloud-native10
operator10
foundationdb10
monitoring10
glusterfs10
oltp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SabaPing/beats
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
tropicallogstashbeatsfishelasticsearch
exinton/automated-coverage-collection-tool
Oct 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 4 months
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