Yiqing Lu
Data Engineer
China
Summary
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Top SchoolYiqing Lu is a data engineer with 10 years of experience building data platforms, warehouses, and governance systems across finance and tech, currently working on search and recommendation knowledge graphs at JD.com. Proficient in SQL, Java, Python and big-data stacks including Hadoop, Hive, Spark and Flink, she combines production ETL expertise with applied analytics training from Columbia University. Her background includes data platform and large-model application development at Bank of Shanghai and a short governance-focused role at TikTok, reflecting both operational and policy-minded perspectives. An active back-end contributor to the widely used Unicode CLDR project, she has improved Java-based locale data processing and XML caching—evidence of attention to robust parsing and internationalization challenges. Trained in statistics and managerial economics at UC Davis, she brings quantitative rigor and product-aware thinking to complex data engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics at University of California, DavisMaster of Science - MS Applied Analytics, Master of Science - MS Applied Analytics at Columbia University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
xpath10
xml-parsing10
java10
data-processing10
caching9
cldr8
unicode8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/cldr
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
The home of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 24 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yiqing primarily focused on modifying and improving the CLDR data processing tools, specifically within Java code. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to XPath handling, particularly the `XPathParts` class, and its interaction with frozen/thawed instances. Furthermore, they made adjustments to various classes, including `CLDRFile`, `XMLFileReader`, and `LikelySubtags`, indicating involvement in data loading, parsing, and the handling of locale-specific data. The user also made substantial improvements to the XMLSource, and its cache.
data-repositorylocalecldricuunicode
LLLHgo/Code
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:143 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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