xrao
Summary
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RockstarXiang Rao is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of industry experience, currently building scalable systems at Yahoo! from his base in Alpharetta, Georgia. He brings deep backend and database expertise, demonstrated by contributions to a MySQL performance analyzer that handle connection management, credential storage, schema updates, and replication topology probing. His career spans enterprise and telecom environments (Yahoo!, AT&T) as well as consulting and startup engineering roles, grounded in an MS in Computer Science from Florida State University and a BS in Mathematics from Peking University. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he combines academic rigor with production-focused engineering and a particular knack for diagnosing and optimizing database performance under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
javas10
sql10
mysql10
java10
database-design9
database-administration8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
yahoo/mysql_perf_analyzer
May 2015 - Mar 2020
MySQL performance monitoring and analysis.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:xrao primarily contributed to the back-end of the MySQL performance analyzer, focusing on database interactions and related functionalities. They modified code related to database connection handling, including the creation and closing of connections, and implemented features to manage and store database credentials. They also worked on database schema updates, specifically concerning user access control and the addition of features like replication topology probing.
mysqlperformance-monitoringjavaperformance-analysisbig-data
xrao/GitTest
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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