Zhanfeng Ma
Senior Expert at Alibaba Cloud
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhanfeng Ma is a Senior Expert and database specialist with 11+ years focused on core RDBMS development, particularly on SAP/Sybase ASE storage engine, indexing, MVCC, logging/recovery, and large object handling. He has led teams, recruited and mentored engineers, driven feature delivery such as LOB compression/encryption, and managed high-stakes customer escalations and one-off builds. Currently at Alibaba Cloud after a long tenure at SAP Labs China and Sybase, he blends deep systems-level C++ and Linux expertise with practical Go and scripting skills. Known for tackling the hardest storage-layer problems, he also contributes technical writing on Zhihu and brings an operator’s mindset to product innovation and reliability. His background—Master’s in CS from Xi’an Jiaotong and sustained hands-on ownership of ASE releases—means he’s equally comfortable designing algorithms and shipping production fixes under pressure.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, CS, Master, CS at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityBachelor, CS, Bachelor, CS at Hunan University
English
Github Skills (4)
matrix-factorization10
gradient-descent9
algorithm8
machine-learning-algorithms8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mazefeng/svm
Sep 2014 - Feb 2018
Tools that implement of the classic SMO (Sequential Minimal Optimization) algorithm for traning SVMs
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
mazefeng/lightmf
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
A light-weight matrix factorization tool
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 40 pushes in 2 years 7 months
matrix-factorization
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