# Menglei Sun

> Staff Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/menglei

I love to build all things around data infra, data products.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
A Tech Lead on metadata intelligence / data governance, focusing on lineage in Unity Catalog, tagging across databricks products.

Two products i built from scratch:
1, Data Lineage in Unity Catalog: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/data-lineage
2, Governed Tags: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/governed-tags/

Tech Talk:
Lineage System Table in Unity Catalog - DAIS 2023

Patent:
data lineage tracking: https://patents.google.com/patent/US12242441B1/en

### Senior Software Engineer @ Houzz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Tech lead of data infra.
- Built the streaming platform (Flink) from scratch, partnered with search, personalization, marketing, etc.
- Built company wide Kubernetes Logging Observability from scratch, re-ramped the log ingestion infra from batch to stream with 99.99%+ SLOs.
- Owner of core mobile (android & iOS) data pipeline (Spark, Hive, Hadoop)

Platform team
- A/B Test 
- Email & Notification

Tech talk:
How Houzz Adopted Flink at Scale. Flink Forward Global 2020

### Analyst @ BlackRock
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Data in fintech


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Florida

### Exchange - Physics
UCLA

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
Shandong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/menglei-sun-6323849b

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Last updated: 2026-04-12