Tao Wu
Distributed Systems Engineer · Founder
Remotewutao.as.neverchanje@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/tao-wu-a76725105github.com/neverchanje
Summary
Software engineer and founder with 10+ years building distributed systems and data infrastructure. Founding engineer of RisingWave (open-source streaming database) and tech lead of Apache Pegasus (distributed NoSQL). Now building AI-native products end-to-end as a solo founder.
Experience
Founder · NullReach Ltd
Aug 2025 – Present- Shipped 5 AI products, focused on AI for growth and human–AI collaboration:
- Kanban Skill (2026): an open-source kanban agent for autonomous project management — pulls market signals from dist0 and turns them into plans.
- dist0 (2026): a Reddit market-intelligence platform that extracts and clusters market signals through LLM pipelines and delivers them via Slack, email, webhook and API.
- RankEarly (2025): SEO content platform — keyword research, topic clustering, AI-assisted content writing.
- Snapulse (2025): turns Reddit posts into carousels.
- BilingoSub (2024): automatically adds movie-level bilingual subtitles to videos — dual-engine transcription and translation, 99% accuracy.
Founding Engineer & Senior Product Manager · RisingWave Labs
2021 – 2025- Founding engineer of RisingWave, an open-source distributed streaming database; primary contributor to the initial SQL processing engine.
- Owned product management for the database kernel, then led product for RisingWave Cloud, the hosted service.
Senior Software Engineer · Xiaomi
Jul 2017 – Mar 2021- Tech lead of Apache Pegasus, a distributed NoSQL database incubated at Xiaomi and later donated to the Apache Incubator.
- Drove the system from an internal project to Apache Incubation, including open-source community and governance.
Skills
- Systems:
- Distributed systems, stream processing, database internals, SQL query processing, storage & replication, NoSQL
- Languages:
- Rust, C++, SQL, TypeScript, Python, Go
- Full-stack:
- Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Vercel, Fly.io
- Cloud & Product:
- Cloud-hosted services, developer tools, product management, go-to-market
- AI:
- LLM agent loops & workflows, prompt & skill engineering, AI-assisted development
Education
B.S. in Software Engineering · Southeast University, Nanjing