Zhe Wang
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarZhe Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in distributed databases and core backend systems, currently working on FoundationDB at Snowflake after a multi-year tenure at Apple. He holds a Ph.D. in scheduling theory for parallel and distributed systems and brings deep research rigor to production-grade concurrency and performance problems. A core contributor to the open-source FoundationDB project, Zhe has fixed subtle multithreading data races and improved RocksDB metrics and actor structure to make the storage layer more robust. Based in Cupertino, he combines academic insight with practical engineering, often tackling low-level C++ correctness and observability issues that many engineers never touch.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
database-engine10
rocksdb10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
multithreading10
concurrency10
distributed-database9
key-value-store9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:715 reviews, 28 commits, 762 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Zhe contributed to the FoundationDB project by addressing data race issues in the RocksDB store, specifically within the context of multithreaded histogram implementations. Their work involved modifying the C++ code to include features like ThreadReturnPromiseStream to make the histogram thread-safe. Additionally, they fixed various RocksDB-related metrics, including those related to compaction and write operations. Furthermore, the user improved the structure of the project by applying actor collection for the rocksdb histogram actors.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
kakaiu/kakaiu.github.io
Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:162 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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