Zhixin Wen
Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhixin Wen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed, high-scale systems across transportation, robotics, and real-time infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven scalability and reliability projects at Nuro and Uber—working on fleet operations, dispatch infrastructure, and a Kubernetes-like cluster platform—now continuing at Roblox. Zhixin combines deep backend expertise in Go, storage, caching and sharding with a practical focus on latency and fault tolerance, and has contributed performance and stability fixes to the widely used apache/cassandra-gocql-driver open-source project. Known for digging into critical production pain points, he also builds tooling to make large fleets and services easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.92, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.92 at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
golang10
databases10
error-handling10
go10
driver10
device-driver10
cassandra10
cassandra-database10
concurrency10
database10
nosql9
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-gocql-driver
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 31 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Zhixin primarily focused on improving the GoCQL driver's performance and stability. They fixed timeout issues in the `prepareStatement` function and addressed a related bug. Furthermore, they made improvements to the `executeBatch` function to handle errors, and refactored the code for sending frames asynchronously to prevent blocking. The user also fixed a memory leak issue related to stream releasing.
golangdrivernosqlcassandradatabase
emilie1027/Connexity
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 month
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