Yingjun Wu
Founder And CEO at RisingWave Labs
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYingjun Wu is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building high-performance, event-driven data platforms and next-generation database systems. As founder of RisingWave Labs in California, he leads development of RisingWave to serve event-driven workloads, drawing on prior engineering work at AWS (Redshift optimizations like vectorization, compression, elastic scaling and materialized views) and research at IBM Almaden on indexing, storage, transactions and ML-enhanced database components. He combines deep research credentials (Ph.D. from National University of Singapore and visiting work at CMU) with hands-on backend engineering—contributing notable streaming improvements to the widely used Apache Flink project. Comfortable bridging academia and production, he focuses on scalable state management and streaming primitives that make real-time systems more efficient and reliable.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Ph.D. Computer Science, Visiting Ph.D. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (8)
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big-data10
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apache-flink10
java10
streaming10
windowing9
scala8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Yingjun primarily worked on refactoring and improving the streaming component of Apache Flink. Their commits focused on addressing issues related to streaming functionality, including setting up configurations and adding timestamp fields. They also made changes to the internal state management and windowing operations of the streaming framework, improving the efficiency and capabilities.
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yingjunwu/peloton-scripts
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 10 months
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