Resume

Introduction

I am currently resting and looking for my next job. Until recently, I was a software engineer at Zilliz where I lead a small team with four people develop storage for Milvus. In the five years after graduation, I have been engaged in database development.

Work experience

Zilliz, Shanghai
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022, Milvus v2.0(cloud-native distributed vector database)

Built a message queue library based on RocksDB used in the standalone deployment of Milvus.
Built the fetch and delete functions which provides session level consistency.
Building and governing the Milvus community(membership, automation robots, GitHub management, technical meetings, etc).

Apr 2019 - Mar 2021, Milvus v1.0(shared-storage-based distributed vector database)

Investigated the design and implementation of FAISS(ANN library from Facebook).
Participated in the architecture design of Milvus.
Built the task scheduler, to support dispatch search tasks and indexing tasks to CPU and GPU.
Participated in the development of a new algorithm accelerated by both CPU and GPU.
Improved the k-selection algorithm on GPU, extending upper limit of TOPK from 1024 to 16384.
Led a team of five people to developing the hybrid search function that enables users to execute a similarity search with scalar filtering.
Wrote technical articles about Milvus.

Aug 2017 - Apr 2019, Megawise(GPU-accelerated database based on PostgreSQL)

Developed the algorithm of SCAN and AGGREGATION, makes Megawise passed the TPC-H benchmark.
Built the compilation system of Megawise through CMake, helps Megawise to integrated multiple third-party libraries.

Zerone(Former Zilliz), Jiaxing
Software Engineer
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017, Zdb(prototype of Megawise)

Built the JIT execution engine(dynamically convert SQL to CUDA function) which makes the SCAN and AGGREGATION speed up to more than a hundred time than CPU.

Education

South China Institute of Software Engineering,Guangzhou University
BE, Internet of things
Sep 2012 - June 2016

Won the first prize in National Undergraduate IoT Design Contest in 2015.
Won the second prize in National College Student Smart Internet Innovation Application Design Contest in 2014.
Won the second prize in Guangzhou University Programming Contest in 2014.

Skills

C++(Advanced)
Python(Advanced)
CUDA(Advanced)
Go(Intermediate)
Docker(Advanced)
Linux(Advanced)
Git(Advanced)

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