Interview with Jianchen: Journey from Open Source Contributor to Data Engineer at Xiaohongshu
In this interview, Xiaohongshu data engineer Jianchen recounts his evolution from a computer‑science student discovering open‑source through MIT6.824 to contributing to SOFAJRaft and Apache RocketMQ, detailing his OSPP projects, the decision to join Xiaohongshu, and his work on a cloud‑native Kafka engine that cut storage and compute usage by half.