EMR Lead @ Alibaba Cloud · ASF Member · 16 years in Apache
My mission: building the open, unified data infrastructure for the AI era.
- EMR Lead at Alibaba Cloud, responsible for Spark/Fusion, StarRocks/Stella, Milvus, and EMR Agent product lines
- ASF Member, Apache Flink / HBase / Paimon / Celeborn / Gluten / Fluss PMC Member
- Champion of Apache Paimon, Celeborn, and Fluss during their incubation periods
- Mentor of Apache Amoro and GraphAr
| Layer | Apache Project | Alibaba Product | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming Storage | Fluss | Streaming Storage for Apache Fluss* | Incubating (Graduating to TLP) |
| Lake Format | Paimon | Milvus x DLF Vector Lake | TLP |
| Lakehouse Mgmt | Amoro | DLF* | Incubating |
| Shuffle Service | Celeborn | EMR Fusion for Apache Spark | TLP |
| Batch Execution | Gluten | Fusion Kernel (TPC-DS 100TB #1) | TLP |
| OLAP | Doris* | EMR StarRocks (Stella Kernel TPC-H 10TB #1) | — |
| Streaming | Flink | Realtime Compute for Apache Flink* | TLP |
| NoSQL | HBase | EMR on ECS - DataServing | TLP |
| Vector DB | — | Milvus | — |
Note: Items marked with an asterisk (*) are not projects I am involved in or products I am responsible for.
- HBaseCon 2016 - Apache HBase in Alibaba Search
- HBaseConAsia 2017 - Lift the ceiling of HBase throughputs
- Flink Forward Asia 2019 — New Feature and Improvements on State Backends in Flink 1.10
- Flink Forward Asia 2021 - Flink State - Backend Improvements and Evolution in 2021
- StarRocks Summit 2023 - From OLAP to Lakehouse: Alibaba Cloud & StarRocks
- Yunqi Conference 2023 — EMR Enters the Serverless Era
- Yunqi Conference 2024 — EMR Serverless Spark for Lakehouse Analytics
- DataFun Data+AI Summit 2025 - OpenLake: A Lakehouse Platform Solution for the AI Era
- Yunqi Conference 2025 — EMR AI, Fusion/Stella TPC Champions
- Yunqi Conference 2025 - Alibaba Cloud Milvus: A Professional-Grade Vector Database for the AI Era
- Flink Forward Asia 2026 - Building AI-Native Multimodal Lake with Apache Paimon & Milvus