Zhongyang W
Software Engineer at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhongyang W is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on observability, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms, currently working on core growth at Snap in Seattle. As an OpenTelemetry Rust co-maintainer, he has driven improvements to the Jaeger exporter and schema support, bringing practical protocol and performance fixes to a major open-source telemetry implementation. His background includes deep work on TiDB/TiKV—implementing vectorized SQL functions and IPv4/IPv6 handling—to optimize query execution in production-grade distributed databases. At Walmart Global Tech he built metric services on Kubernetes, integrated Prometheus/Grafana, and owned alerting and benchmarking efforts, demonstrating both systems design and operational rigor. He holds an MS in Computer Science from George Washington University (3.95 GPA) and combines low-level Rust/Go engineering with real-world observability and production incident leadership.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.95/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.95/4.0 at George Washington UniversityBachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Nanjing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
apim10
tracer10
api-design10
mysql10
key-value10
tidb10
databases10
vectorization10
go10
api10
sql10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
rust10
trace10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The Rust OpenTelemetry implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 891 reviews, 43 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Zhongyang primarily contributed to improving the Jaeger exporter, which is a crucial component for tracing in the OpenTelemetry Rust implementation. Their work involved mapping between Jaeger and OpenTelemetry models, particularly for the service name, to address inconsistencies. The user also refactored the code to use `Cow<'static, str>` for instrumentation library names and versions, enhancing flexibility and performance. Furthermore, the user added schema URL support and incorporated various fixes and updates related to protocol buffer definitions and dependencies.
zipkinapirusttracinglogging
tikv/tikv
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 14 PRs, 47 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhongyang contributed to the TiKV project by implementing and vectorizing various functions within the TiDB query engine. Their work involved modifying code related to IPv4/IPv6 compatibility, string manipulation (reverse_binary), and string formatting (quote). These changes included creating and optimizing query engine functionality, as well as adding new functions to support TiDB's query capabilities.
tidbtikvdatabasekey-value-databaseconsensus
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