Yuxia Luo
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuxia Luo is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in backend and streaming data systems, currently based in Los Angeles and working at Alibaba Group. As an Apache Flink committer and contributor to Flink CDC, she has a track record of fixing complex Hive connector bugs, improving timestamp handling, and adding MySQL source metrics and local dev tooling. Her work blends development and DevOps concerns—shoring up build stability, documentation, and instrumentation to make distributed streaming software more reliable in production. She holds an MEng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a BE from Tongji University, bringing formal training in software engineering to large-scale open source projects. Active in the Apache community (including a PPMC role in an incubating project), she combines deep protocol-level fixes with practical developer ergonomics. Off the clock she jokes she’s “more a rapper than a coder,” hinting at a creative streak that influences collaborative problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (16)
javas10
change-data-capture10
flink-sql10
docker10
apache-flink10
dockers10
mysql10
data-integration10
java10
data-pipelines9
build-automation9
documentation9
metric9
sql9
data-pipeline9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:662 reviews, 165 commits, 325 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Yuxia focused on fixing bugs and improving the Apache Flink code, specifically related to the Hive connector. Their work included resolving issues with timestamp handling, such as supporting the `current_timestamp` function with the Hive dialect and handling various timestamp-related scenarios. They also addressed issues related to the "transform using" syntax, which involves code modifications across multiple files to ensure the correct functionality of the Hive connector.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
apache/flink-cdc
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 8 commits, 25 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yuxia contributed to documentation for local development setup, including Docker configuration. They also worked on build processes by using stable versions of tools for building docs. Furthermore, the user implemented source metrics for MySQL, adding instrumentation for performance monitoring. These changes suggest a focus on both development and operational aspects of the Flink CDC project.
flinkchange-data-captureapachebig-dataspark
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