Zixi Qu

zixiqu [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu

Education

University of Toronto Sep 2024 – Now

MEng - Electrical and Computer Engineering


University of Toronto Mississauga Sep 2019 – May 2024

Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc)

Experience

Huawei technologies Inc. May 2022 – Jul 2023

DevOps - Internship

  • Contributed to the development of Taurus Multi-Master. The research from 2022 to 2023 was published in VLDB Conference 2023. Link.
  • Spearheaded daily QA processes and performance benchmarking, designing and implementing automated testing frameworks for GaussDB and TaurusDB to ensure core database stability and high performance.
  • Refactored code testing pipeline by establishing a nightly automated regression testing system, covering 1,000+ unit and integration test cases. This improvement reduced QA workload by 70% during daytime operations, and has become a long-term institutional solution.
  • Developed Bash/Python automation toolchain for rapid deployment of multi-node virtualized clusters, utilizing customized Sysbench-TPCC tests to benchmark throughput, tail latency, and other key metrics for research performance comparisons.

Skills