BUGEN ZHAO

PERSONAL DETAILS

Birth

October, 2000

Twitter

twitter.com/BugenZhao

Mail

i@bugenzhao.com

GitHub

github.com/BugenZhao

Database Kernel Engineer, at RisingWave Labs

Shanghai & Singapore, Dec 2021 - Present

I am actively engaged in the design and development of RisingWave, an open-source distributed stream-

ing database, serving as the unquestionable Top 1 contributor from the very early stages.

• Significantly contributed to the early design of RisingWave, including the checkpointing service, stream-

ing state store, table store, and the database frontend.

• Designed and implemented online scaling of streaming jobs, the killer functionality in RisingWave to

make it flexible, affordable, and truly cloud-native.

• Independently designed the distributed scheduling system based on consistent-hash algorithm, em-

powering key features like higher-ordered materialized view, online schema evolution, and so on.

• Hack on the workflow automation tool ticat and its modules for TiDB.

Software Engineer Intern, at ByteDance Inc.

Shanghai, Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

I was engaged in the development of video conference of Lark.

• Participant in a modern and event-driven UI framework for Lark in Rust.

• Participant in the rewriting and performance improvement of Lark video conference.

OTHERS

Side Projects

• MNGA, a refreshing forum App in SwiftUI and Rust, with up to 200K downloads in App Store.

• litchi-rs, an experimental x86-64 toy operating system kernel with ∼100% Rust.

Programming

Rust (100k+ LoC)

C/C++, Swift (10k+ LoC)

Go, TypeScript, Java, Python (2k+ LoC)