# Xinrong Meng > Apache Spark PMC Member and Committer Location: Pacifica, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/xinrong I am an Apache Spark PMC (Project Management Committee) Member and Committer, with deep technical expertise in PySpark. I am one of the main contributors to the Pandas API on Spark. I am engaged as a speaker at industry-leading conferences such as PyData and PyCon. I initiated and actively maintain https://github.com/xinrong-meng/knowledge-sharing. I dance and surf. ## Work Experience ### PMC Member @ The Apache Software Foundation Jan 2023 – Present ### Committer @ The Apache Software Foundation Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Open-source Spark / Python Team ### Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 Open-source Spark / Python Team ### Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Spark Environment Team ### Software Engineer Intern @ JD.COM Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China ### Software Engineer Co-op @ Teradyne Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | North Reading ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xinrong-meng --- Source: https://flows.cv/xinrong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xinrong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05