Tak Wu
Principal Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTak Wu is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, cloud runtimes, and data processing platforms. He leads Cloudera’s Operational Database team and is a long-time Apache HBase committer and PMC member, contributing core improvements like store/cache management and client-side scan optimizations. His background includes driving EMR HBase releases and persistent HFile tracking at AWS, plus deep experience across Hadoop, Hive, Presto and S3-backed storage modes. Tak blends hands-on systems engineering with performance analysis and operational delivery, often prototyping integrations between open-source databases and cloud storage. Outside work he’s an active open-source maintainer and unabashed cat-and-git enthusiast, balancing technical leadership with pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (unfinished) Computer Science, Ph.D. (unfinished) Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's Degree Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Central University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
javas10
hbase10
back-end-development10
java10
database9
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
cop8
copr8
coproc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Apache HBase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:273 reviews, 73 commits, 159 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tak primarily contributed to the core functionality of Apache HBase, focusing on internal store and cache management. They added the `StoreContext` to the `HStore` class, providing metadata for better efficiency. Furthermore, they introduced and reverted changes related to the block cache usage in `ClientSideRegionScanner`. These changes involved modifications to `HFile` and `BlockCache` to optimize read performance and enhance the client-side scanning capabilities.
hbasedatabasejava
taklwu/hbase
Jun 2018 - Jul 2026
Mirror of Apache HBase for testing
Contributions:4 PRs, 135 pushes, 112 branches in 8 years 1 month
apache-hbasetestingapachejavahbase
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