Hi, my name is Xing Lin. I am a big data infrastructure engineer at Linkedin since 2021. I was an ATG (Advanced Technology Group) engineer at NetApp between 2015 and 2020. Before that, I was a PHD student in the school of computing at the University of Utah. My advisor is Prof. Robert Ricci. I did two internships with Fred Douglis in the Advanced Development Team, EMC Backup and Recovery System Division and one internship with Gokul Soundararajan and Jingxin Feng in NetApp ATG. I completed my Bachelor from the College of Software, Nankai University, China in 2009. I am interested in the following areas: big data systems, data deduplication and compression, distributed storage, solid state drives, and key-value stores.
In my spare time, I like reading books (especially history and biography), hiking around in the local area, and sampling nice food.
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