Xin Zhang

Greater Seattle Area United States

Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Pivotal, Inc.

Technology / Software / Internet

PIVOTAL: "Do What Works, Do the Right Thing, and Be Kind!" Shin is currently a senior principal software engineer at Pivotal Data team. Shin is a committer of GPORCA (a standalone query optimizer), a committer of GPDB (a MPP database solution), a committer of Gemfire (a in-memory data grid) and Greenplum connector (a protocol to transfer data between Gemfire and Greenplum clusters), and a contributor on HAWQ (a SQL solution on top of HADOOP using GPORCA). In past decade, Shin was also a seasoned former Microsoft SQL Server engineer focused on product quality of query optimizer (QO) and released columnstore indexing, star join optimization, and other performance features in SQL Server rel...