Apache Airflow PMC member & Committer; Software Engineer at Apple
Xiaodong is currently working as software engineer in Apple ASE Data Pipelines team. He is also one of the committers (since March 2019) and PMC members (since December 2020) of Apache Airflow.
Other than coding & open source, Xiaodong also loves outdoor sports. He used to be an active trail runner, and finished races like Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji (STY), TransLantau 50, Dalian 100, Canyons Endurance 50k, and more. He is also a P3 paragliding pilot.
Sessions by Xiaodong Deng
- When Airflow Meets Yunikorn: Enhancing Airflow on Kubernetes with Yunikorn for Higher Efficiency (2026)
- Building in Resource Awareness and Event Dependency into Airflow (2024)
- Better Support for Using Multiple Namespaces with KubernetesExecutor (2023)
- Create Your Custom Secrets Backend for Apache Airflow - A guided tour into Airflow codebase (2021)