# Boyang Jerry Peng

> Distributed systems enthusiast | Committer and PMC member @ Apache {Pulsar, Heron, Storm}

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/boyangjerrypeng

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Present
Work on Stream Processing... More to come...

### Apache Spark Contributor @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2021 – Present
Working on improving Structured Streaming!

### Apache Pulsar Committer and PMC member @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2018 – Present
I am a committer and project management committee (PMC) member of Apache Pulsar.
Apache Pulsar is an open-source next gen distributed pub-sub messaging system.

Co-creator/creator of Pulsar Functions, Pulsar IO, and Pulsar SQL

Program committee member for Pulsar Summit 2020 (inaugural Pulsar Summit), Pulsar Summit Asia 2020, Pulsar Summit Europe 2021, Pulsar Summit Asia 2021. 

http://pulsar.apache.org/

### Apache Heron Committer and PPMC member @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2018 – Present
I am a committer and project management committee (PMC) member of Apache Heron
Apache Heron is a open-source distributed low latency data stream processing platform originally developed at Twitter. 

https://apache.github.io/incubator-heron/

### Apache Storm Committer and PMC Member @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2015 – Present
I am a committer and project management committee (PMC) member of Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a popular open-source distributed low latency data stream processing platform.  

http://storm.apache.org/

### Principal Software Engineer @ Splunk
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
Tech Lead / architect for multiple teams (20+ engineers) and initiatives. Work mostly on stream processing and messaging (Apache Flink + Apache Pulsar).

### Software Engineer (Acquired by Splunk) @ Streamlio
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Startup in the area of distributed data stream processing and real-time analytics!  Mostly work on Apache Heron (distributed stream processing), Apache Pulsar (pub-sub), and Kubernetes.  

Tech lead for real-time compute portion of our platform which includes technologies such Pulsar Functions, Pulsar IO, and Pulsar SQL.

My responsibilities are typical of a staff level engineer

https://apache.github.io/incubator-heron

http://pulsar.apache.org/

### Software/Data Engineer @ Citadel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Chicago
Everything Cloud!

Architect and implement distributed highly available applications that interact with public cloud providers

Lead the effort to modernize data governance and processing across several organizations

My responsibilities are typical of a senior level engineer

Work with platforms such as Spark and Vertica for Big Data Analytics

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Worked on the Low Latency team at Yahoo of which I primarily conducted R&D on distributed data stream processing systems more specifically Apache Storm

Lead the development of intelligent scheduling strategies for stream processing engines based on my research at UIUC.

Many of Yahoo's most high profile products (Yahoo Finance, Sports, etc) and systems (Ad tech) uses Storm to process and analyze large volumes of dynamic data with low latency.

Our team primarily worked on big data projects involving distributed platforms that provide low latency data processing solutions

Also worked on Apache Kafka and Apache Spark

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
CS 105 - Introduction to Programming
CS 427 - Software Engineering Principles
CS 438 - Computer Networks

### Graduate Software Intern (Intern II) @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, California
Design and implement a resource aware scheduler for the Storm distributed low-latency data stream processing system

Design and implement intelligent task placement strategies to assign tasks to execute on nodes

Implement comprehensive tests to validate performance and behavior of scheduler

### Graduate Software Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Hillsboro, Oregon
Develop novel memory allocation models for non-homogeneous memory systems using Non-Uniform Memory Allocation (NUMA) techniques

### Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Develop a novel trustworthy information distribution and retrieval network, which we call 
iTrust, with no centralized administration and no centralized control

Devise strategies to maintain the fidelity of the network by identifying possible 
vulnerabilities in the system

Use network test benches such as Emulab and PlanetLab to emulate system

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Hillsboro, Oregon
Parallelize common sequential algorithms to exploit the computational efficiency of many 
core processing units

Design algorithms to use different programming paradigms to identify which programming 
paradigm is best for what scenario on a many core processing units

Conduct performance analysis on various workloads to identify inefficiencies in the 
compilation process

### Web based software devoloper @ Instructional Computing (Gauchospace)
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Design and implement both server side and client side applications

Research and investigate the feasibility of certain web based technologies
 
Develop customized applications on the Moodle platform

Fix server hardware malfunctions


## Education
### Master's degree (with Thesis) in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/boyang-jerry-peng
- Portfolio: http://jerrypeng.org

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