Zhipeng Mao
Software Engineer at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolZhipeng Mao is a software engineer based in Amsterdam with a year of industry experience focused on storage and distributed systems. Currently on Databricks' Delta DML team, he brings hands-on experience from internships and research roles at Snowflake, Oracle, EPFL and ByteDance where he worked on Lamport clock reliability, parallel CSR construction, MVCC for column stores, and recommender system optimizations. His background blends rigorous academic training (MS at EPFL, BE from Tsinghua) with practical contributions to database internals and real-time update semantics. Notably, he has repeatedly implemented low-level concurrency and performance improvements across prod and research systems, showing a strong comfort with systems programming and data infrastructure. Colleagues would find him pragmatic, curious, and effective at turning research ideas into production-grade components.
1 year of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Digital Humanities, Master of Science - MS, Digital Humanities at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Github Skills (23)
apache-spark10
spark10
delta-lake10
python10
architecture10
r10
storage10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
acid10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhipengmao-db/delta
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs
Contributions:78 pushes, 28 branches in 6 months
zhipengmao-db/spark
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:26 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
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