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Alex Chi Z
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Alex Chi Z skyzh

Databricks 🧱

building database systems @databricks, previously @cmu-db; a bubble tea every day makes me happy right away

Also at Databricks 🧱Tian Gao
GitHub@iskyzhWebsite
Influence78rank 146
Stars, own repos13.8k77 repos
Stars, 30 daysn/a
Followers8.5kGitHub

Best work

tiny-llm learn LLM inference system on Apple Silicon for systems engineers: build a tiny vLLM + Qwen 4.8k stars · Python Rides Qwen Emerging 11x in a year Source on GitHub
mini-lsm89 · Vouched learn database internals by building a storage engine in Rust 4.2k stars · Rust Rides Rust Growing +231% in a year Source on GitHub
type-exercise-in-rust Learn advanced Rust by building a type-safe, auto-vectorized database expression engine 1.5k stars · Rust Rides Rust Growing +231% in a year Source on GitHub
Builds inLearning and listsReviving+205% new repos in a year · forecast rising

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People like Alex

Fatih Kadir AkınFatih Kadir AkınBuilding prompts.chat and leading agentic experience at Automattic.Influence 78 · +330 stars in 30 daysᴊᴏᴇ ᴄʜᴇɴᴊᴏᴇ ᴄʜᴇɴ𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰. 𝓒𝓸𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓽.Influence 78laurenlaurenSoftware engineer at xAI and React compiler core team.Influence 78 · +2 stars in 30 daysR.I.PienaarR.I.PienaarSystems Architect, Automator, Coder.Influence 76Maxime LabonneMaxime LabonneHead of Post-Training @ Liquid AIInfluence 76AvelinoAvelinoCTO at @buserbrasil, open source engineerInfluence 83

Timeline

  1. Busiest day on GitHub this year58 contributions in one day
  2. Launched tiny-llm4.8k stars today
  3. Launched vector-db-from-scratch808 stars today
  4. Launched chicv729 stars today
  5. Launched mini-lsm4.2k stars today
  6. Launched type-exercise-in-rust1.5k stars today
  7. Joined GitHub8.5k followers since

Works with

Pull requests between them and other people in this index, past year.

neondatabase

neondatabase Alex sent 1 pull request to neondatabase/azure-sdk-for-rust