Summary
Shichao N is a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building and optimizing large-scale distributed messaging and data platforms, currently working at ByteDance. He was a founding engineer at AutoMQ where he drove innovations such as continuous multi-goal self-balancing, cost-aware S3 garbage collection, multi-tier rate throttling, and a dynamic sparse index to accelerate S3-backed Kafka workloads. Earlier he contributed to RocketMQ at Alibaba Cloud and has hands-on experience across the stack—from JNI/C++ performance optimizations for JDBC-driven data pipelines to designing full-stack observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MS, ECE) and with a physics undergraduate background, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical system-building instincts that surface in both low-level optimizations and cloud-native architecture.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Central China Normal University
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese