Zhou Xing
Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZhou Xing is a software engineer with six years of experience specializing in distributed SQL and backend systems, currently working on the SQL Queries team at Cockroach Labs. He contributes to CockroachDB—one of the leading cloud-native, distributed SQL databases—focusing on database internals, SQL features, and integrations such as pgjdbc, gorm, and Django. Zhou has shipped production improvements like graceful draining connection waits, support for environment-driven node startup, and the OVERLAPS SQL builtin, demonstrating both practical bug fixes and feature work. His background includes research-adjacent training in computational social science from the University of Chicago and early internships in blockchain and startup environments, which inform a data-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Toronto, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on open-source impact on a widely used, high-availability database.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, International Trade and Economics, Bachelor's degree, International Trade and Economics at University of International Business and EconomicsMaster's degree, Computational Social Science, Master's degree, Computational Social Science at University of Chicago
French, Chinese, Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
testing10
go10
postgresql10
sql10
database-design9
database-administration8
psql8
pgsql8
plpgsql8
pg8
java7
dockers7
docker7
infrastructure7
javas7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:400 reviews, 190 commits, 192 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhou contributed to various aspects of the CockroachDB project, including bug fixes and enhancements to the database's functionality and testing infrastructure. Their work involved fixing issues related to the pgjdbc, gorm, and Django integrations. The user also implemented new features such as support for environment variables and initialization scripts for the `start-single-node` command and the `OVERLAPS` syntax and builtin function. Additional contributions included improvements to the database's internal mechanics, such as adding a connection wait phase for graceful draining and adding features for SQL.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
ZhouXing19/cockroach
Jul 2021 - Nov 2024
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1091 pushes, 171 branches in 3 years 4 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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