Haizhou Zhao
Software Engineer at Alibaba Group
China
Summary
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Top SchoolHaizhou Zhao is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently at Alibaba and previously at DolphinDB, with an academic background in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sichuan University. He is an active backend contributor to the high-profile Apache Iceberg project, improving Avro projection handling, Hive Metastore integration (including database ownership and namespace creation), REST Catalog tests, and OpenAPI fixes. His work focuses on storage metadata, catalog integrations and test infrastructure, making distributed data systems more interoperable and reliable. Based in China, he combines performance-driven database experience with production-scale engineering at major platform companies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Chengdu NO.7 High School 成都市第七中学Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sichuan University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
avro10
java10
apache-iceberg10
testing9
rest-api9
openapi38
openapi-38
openapi8
hadoop7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 3 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Haizhou primarily contributed to the Apache Iceberg project by addressing backend logic and integration with various components. They focused on fixing issues related to Avro projection handling and also made changes to the Hive Metastore integration, specifically around database ownership and namespace creation. Additionally, the user worked on REST Catalog tests, enhancing the testing infrastructure for the REST catalog functionality, and fixed issues in the OpenAPI definition.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
haizhou-zhao/iceberg
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Apache Iceberg
Contributions:77 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
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