Yufan Sheng is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and big data systems across companies like Zoom, StreamNative, Tencent Cloud, and Ant Financial. He combines a strong computer science foundation with practical fluency in Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and hands-on experience implementing production-grade integrations—most notably contributing a Pulsar source connector to the widely used Apache Flink project. Comfortable in both cloud and streaming ecosystems, he has delivered connector logic, configurations, and utilities that bridge messaging systems and stream processing. Based in Hefei, China, Yufan approaches engineering with a thoughtful, curious mindset—treating programming as both craft and hobby, having explored eight languages for fun while keeping product impact front and center.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shandong University
Contributions:174 reviews, 115 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yufan introduced a new Pulsar source connector for Apache Flink, contributing significantly to the project's integration with the Pulsar messaging system. The primary focus was on building the connector logic, including configurations and utilities, for a new data source. The code changes encompass modifications to several Java classes within the flink-connector-pulsar module, indicating involvement in core connector functionality. The work involved implementing new features.
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Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 41 PRs in 1 year
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