Trista Pan
AI Engineer @ Tetrate
Ex AI Product Director @ ByteDance · Former Co-Founder of SphereEx · Apache Member & Incubator Mentor · AWS Data Hero. Expertise in big data and AI.
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Publication Book · Packt · First author
A Definitive Guide to Apache ShardingSphere →
Publication Paper · ICDE 2022
Apache ShardingSphere: A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding →
Post Blog
Personal Agents vs. General-Purpose Agents, and How to Build One →
Article InfoQ
The Agent Harness: What It Is and Two Ways to Build One →
Post Blog
Agent = Model + Harness: Where Engineers Add Value When Models Keep Getting Smarter →
Article InfoQ
The Journey from Underrepresented IC to CTO: How Open Source Helped →
Article InfoQ
Creating a Secure Distributed Database Cluster Leveraging Your Existing DBMS →
Article InfoQ
Create Your Distributed Database on Kubernetes with Existing Monolithic Databases →
Article Stack Overflow Blog
How Sharding a Database Can Make It Faster →
Article New Programmer
How Did a Millennial CTO Become the First Female Apache Member in China? →
Article InfoQ
The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture →
Podcast The Stack Overflow Podcast · Guest
China's Only Female Apache Member on the Rise of Open Source in China →
Article Medium
Why Should You Get Involved in an Open-Source Community? →
Explore my work
Browse the full history of older articles and conference talks, plus podcasts and videos.
Blog
2My own writing, hosted here.
Publications
2Peer-reviewed paper and book.
Articles
20Long-form writing on AI agents, agent harnesses, AI gateways, databases, big data & open source.
Activities
67Talks, panels & appearances, 2019–2026.
Podcasts
15Guest and host episodes.
Videos
11Recorded talk sessions.