Guoqiang Pan

Guoqiang Pan

Guoqiang Pan

More Distributed Systems

I am a no-nonsense, hands-on, 50% TL/50% IC (as previously at Google). I believe that deep experience with a system can only come from working/developing/debugging intimately inside the system. Developing good abstraction is important, but knowing when they are broken is equally important.

Experience

Hudson River TradingSoftware Engineer

2026 — Now

GoogleSoftware Engineer

2006 — 2026

2006 — 2026

San Francisco Bay Area

2018-Current Google Cloud - Spanner (Staff Software Engineer/Co-Lead for Spanner Schema)

Co-Lead for the spanner schema system (Focus area: Scaliability)

2013-2018 Google Photos (Staff Software Engineer/Lead for photos database)

Photos backend

Photos database: Drove the migration from MegaStore to Spanner.

2006-2013 Google Maps (Software Engineer III, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer/Lead)

Google Maps Frontend

Map data ingestion pipeline

Google local business indexing

Map data collection and processing

NEC Labs AmericaSummer Research Intern

2002 — 2002

Education

Rice University

MS

East China University of Science and Technology

MS

East China University of Science and Technology

BS

King Edward VII School, Sheffield

A-level