Raymond Xiwei Yin

Software Engineer

Pivotal Software•  May 2019 - August 2019

Increased competitiveness of Greenplum Database (GPDB, for OLAP tasks) by building APIs for the Platform Extension Framework (PXF) using Java and Apache Tomcat - to parse and optimize query clauses, and to enable GPDB users to access external data sources such as AWS S3 efficiently. Utilized and implemented support for JDBC connection pool to ensure high efficiency and memory safety of PXF servers when processing queries in parallel. Built CLI tool with Go, wrote unit tests and integration tests for PXF with Java, Python, SQL, Shell script, Tinc, Mockito, and Concourse (for integration pipelines) to ensure code quality. Contributed to open source projects (Greenplum Database and PXF https://github.com/greenplum-db/pxf) and increased team's impact by giving technical showcases and publishing an engineering blog (http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/s3select/).

Stevens Institute of Technology

Software Engineering, MS•  August 2018 - December 2019

Worked as a teaching assistant for graduate degree level software engineering course(SSW810) in spring semester 2019

University of Toronto, Toronto

Computer Science, BS•  September 2007 - June 2015

Received $5000 university scholarship upon admission(University College) — Fall semester 2007 (part-time studied due to financial difficulties)