A seasoned software engineer, Shu possesses profound expertise in cloud databases, distributed systems, and real-time data infrastructure. He began his influential database career at Oracle, guiding the engineering for GoldenGate, the market-leading solution for high-speed data replication. His leadership continued at Alibaba Cloud, contributing significantly to the storage architecture of PolarDB, a cutting-edge MySQL-based distributed database.

Today, as an engineering lead at Google, Shu is the driving force behind the industry’s first full ACID vector search implementation in MySQL. He is dedicated to positioning Cloud SQL MySQL as a key enabler within the burgeoning vector and Generative AI ecosystem.