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Successfully led transformative efforts across diverse domains including order fulfillment, advertising, and data organization. In the fulfillment team leading the simplify project - analyzing the latency and failure cases of the current system for refactoring and redesigning the order-related microservices: order placement, fulfillment/shipping, returns, and buyer protection claims. Being the tech lead in the ads team is eye-opening and companied by tremendous learning. Below are some high-level statistics of my tenure as the Tech Lead of the ads team.- The team size quadrupled, with maturing engineering practices and increasing velocity.- The efficiency of the core ad server services has increased by more than 50%. Ads backend services are consistently achieving four 9 availability.- Evolved 40% of ads ecosystem architecture without interruption on existing prod traffic and ads revenue. The process is now standard, and the team has applied it repeatedly. - Implemented a few new ads product lines that contribute to substantial revenue growth.After experiencing the pains of data processing in my last two teams, especially in advertising. I was set to build a better data platform that is more efficient, easier to use, and an enabler for faster product development iterations. - Orchestrated successful migration to a new experiment platform across engineering teams. Enabling modern experimentation functionalities. - Pioneered adoption and integration of a new data streaming platform, accelerating engineering velocity by 4x and enabling new applications.- Coordinated collaboration with multiple vendors and guided internal teams to ensure timely completion of the POC and MVP for embedding-based search.Beyond the engineer role, I led 2023 hackathon team in implementing the POC for a new vertical, securing first place in the following innovation program with a winning business case as the company's 2024 AOP candidate.

Designed and Implemented features for SPICE (Super-fast Parallel In-memory Computation Engine), a modern columnar database engine enabling elastic scaling for real-time traffic of AWS QuickSight Analytic Service.• Fully automated data migration for all regions. Designed the availability-zone-based control plane workflow with failures handled by the run-books of normal operations.• Built a framework for late materialization. Implemented a dynamic optimization fitting SPICE’s own storage format to cut the execution time of relevant queries by up to 97%.• Added operator metrics to enable query profiling. This is crucial for analyzing long running queries and for identifying performance bottlenecks.• Built a framework for window functions. Mentored a junior engineer to implement window functions based on this framework.

My journey with Teradata started with the R&D lab at Madison, Wisconsin for 3 years. Then for more than a decade, Teradata gave the freedom to work virtually while my family moved around the country next to research labs and universities. I had great time collaborating with the bright, warm-hearted and open-minded people, coming up with practical solutions for Teradata's share-nothing MPP architecture. Through the years, I implemented, designed, or led many features, such as sparse Join Index, cardinality estimation, Multiple Hash Maps, IN-list optimization which span from parser to query optimizer to query execution engine. With extensive customer problem study, I proposed several forward-looking features prior to my departure.

In graduate school, I implemented a web-based email system for the company. Then they invited me to work in the Silicon Valley before the internet bubble burst, I was a backend engineer for the e-commerce platform.

While waiting for my visa to U.S, I joined IBM Shanghai and built the yellow-page part of a web portal, using JavaScript and EJB.