Yifeng Xu
Researcher at Alibaba 阿里巴巴
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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RockstarYifeng Xu is a seasoned researcher and systems programmer with 11 years of professional experience and a long history as a FreeBSD source committer. Based in Hangzhou, he has driven low-level concurrency and kernel improvements—most notably implementing FreeBSD’s native 1:1 POSIX thread library and contributing POSIX signal queues, timers, and AIO kernel enhancements. At Alibaba since 2014 he applies deep OS and systems expertise to research problems, building reliable, production-grade infrastructure. Previously he led engineering teams at NetEase and VIA, spanning Windows and Linux development and technical leadership. A FreeBSD hacker fluent in C++ and Erlang, he pairs kernel-level craftsmanship with practical userland tooling and GDB support work. Colleagues know him for tackling subtle concurrency and debugging challenges that most application developers never see.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (158)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opencurve/PolarDB-FileSystem
May 2022 - Aug 2022
A userland shared disk filesystem supports Curve cloud native storage system
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 5 commits in 2 months
cloud-native-storagedisklvmntfsglusterfs
mhiramat/libcap
Sep 2017 - Jan 2024
Clone of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/morgan/libcap.git plus --exec options
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 4 months
execkernellibcapversion-controlgit-hooks
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