Fangjin Yang

Fangjin Yang
Citizenship Canada
Nationality China
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Imply
Alma mater University of Waterloo
Known for Druid (open-source data store)

Fangjin Yang is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Imply.

Yang received his MASc and BASc from the University of Waterloo, advised by Gordon Agnew. His graduate school was sponsored by Cisco Systems,[1] and he joined Cisco after graduation. A few years after joining Cisco, Yang left to join Metamarkets, a San Francisco-based technology startup. At Metamarkets, he worked on creating and developing Druid,[2] and building the community around the project.[3]

In late 2015, he started Imply, a company that commercializes Druid.[4] He is currently the CEO at Imply.

References

  1. ↑ "CGIP - Alumni". ece.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  2. ↑ Yang, Fangjin; Tschetter, Eric; Léauté, Xavier; Ray, Nelson; Merlino, Gian; Ganguli, Deep (2014-01-01). "Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store". Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. SIGMOD '14. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 157–168. doi:10.1145/2588555.2595631. ISBN 9781450323765.
  3. ↑ "Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Imply launches with $2M to commercialize the Druid open-source data store". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-06-23.


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