Zheng Shao
Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolZheng Shao is a seasoned big-data and systems engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable data platforms for companies like Uber, Facebook, Dropbox, and now OpenAI. He blends deep technical expertise in databases, data warehousing, data mining, and cloud-native big data with hands-on backend contributions to major open-source projects such as Apache Hive. At Uber he led large-scale cost, performance, and availability initiatives (including active-active big data deployments) that enabled dramatic scalability and operational resilience across petabytes of data. He has balanced engineering leadership and individual technical contribution throughout his career—founding a startup CTO role at Bluesky and serving as an Apache PMC member while managing core infrastructure teams. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs an academic foundation from Tsinghua, UIUC and Stanford with a practical knack for optimizing trade-offs between cost, accuracy and performance in production systems. An under-the-radar strength is his long-term commitment to making core data infrastructure both efficient and robust, evidenced by bug fixes and feature work deep in Hive’s metastore, QL, and serde internals.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Suzhou Middle SchoolMS (PhD on Leave) Computer Science, MS (PhD on Leave) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBE Computer Science and Technology, BE Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityMS Management Science and Engineering, MS Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (17)
java10
javas10
apache-hive10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
sql9
datastructures-algorithms9
data-structures9
cloudera6
hive6
impala6
cpu6
linux6
caching6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
Sep 2008 - Apr 2010
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:374 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Zheng contributed to the Apache Hive project by modifying Java code, particularly within the metastore, QL, and serde packages. These changes focused on implementing new features, fixing compilation problems, and ensuring that the codebase was robust by fixing various bugs. Their work included updates to enhance data processing capabilities and maintain the functionality of core components.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
zshao/jackbash
Jul 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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