AI Engineer at Tetrate, ex AI Product Director at ByteDance, former Co-Founder of SphereEx, Apache Member & Incubator Mentor, and AWS Data Hero. Her expertise is in big data and AI. Due to her rich experience in open source, she was elected an OSCAR Top Open Source Pioneer. In 2022, her paper “Apache ShardingSphere: A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding” was published at ICDE. As the first author, she wrote a book titled A Definitive Guide to Apache ShardingSphere, published by Packt in 2022.
- Name
- Trista Pan (Juan Pan)
- City
- Beijing, China
- Title
- AI Engineer @ Tetrate
- hannkenn0@gmail.com
Community
- Apache Member & Incubator Mentor
- Apache ShardingSphere PMC
- Apache brpc / AGE / HugeGraph Mentor
- AWS Data Hero
- Mentor, China Mulan Open Source Community
Career
AI Engineer · Tetrate
- Building AI systems and infrastructure.
AI Product Director · ByteDance
May 2025 – Nov 2026- Focused on big data and AI products.
Co-Founder & CTO · SphereEx
May 2021 – May 2025- Co-founded SphereEx; led the distributed database & middleware ecosystem and open-source community.
- AWS Data Hero; Apache ShardingSphere PMC.
Senior Distributed Database Engineer · JD.com
Jan 2018 – Apr 2021- Led R&D of the distributed cloud database platform and distributed transaction engine.
- Apache ShardingSphere maintainer; ASF Incubator Mentor & Member.
Senior DBA Engineer · JD.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018- Operated large-scale MySQL/Oracle database clusters.
- Architected the database automation management platform (Python, DevOps).
Education
Master's degree
Visual Pattern Retrieval & Cloud Computing · Dalian Maritime University
Bachelor's degree
Software Development · Hebei Normal University
Publications
Awards & Recognition
- ● Globee Awards — Chief Technology Officer of the Year (2022)
- ● CSDN — IT Leading Personality of the Year (2021)
- ● CAICT OSCAR — Top Open Source Pioneer (2021)
- ● China Open Source Pioneer (2020)
- ● First female Apache Member in China