Yizhou Yang
Big Data Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYizhou Yang is a Big Data Software Engineer based in Toronto with six years of experience building scalable back-end systems, currently working at Tencent. He holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua focused on self-evolving agents and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, blending deep research with production engineering. Yizhou contributes to Apache InLong, adding manager-client commands, improving Doris sink integrations, and hardening metrics and dirty-data handling for large-scale data pipelines. He specializes in practical, end-to-end data integration and connector reliability, turning research insights into robust, maintainable code. Known for tackling deprecated dependencies and subtle format bugs, he brings attention to long-lived system health as well as feature delivery. Outside core duties, his background in agent research informs a curiosity for adaptive, self-improving systems in data infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github contributions (5)
apache/inlong
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache InLong - a one-stop, full-scenario integration framework for massive data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 13 commits, 57 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yizhou primarily contributed to the Apache InLong project by implementing and modifying back-end functionalities. Their work included adding support for delete, update, and log query commands within the manager client tools, as well as fixing deprecated dependencies and addressing issues related to data formats in the Doris sink connector. They also supported the integration of metrics and restored metrics for single-table operations in Doris, alongside refactoring and bug fixes related to dirty data handling.
event-streamingstopframeworkapachebig-data
Yizhou-Yang/inlong-yyz
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
Apache InLong - a one-stop integration framework for massive data
Contributions:414 pushes, 99 branches, 6 tags in 1 year 11 months
operationdata-processingstopintegration-frameworkapache
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