Mars Lan is a senior staff engineer at Cribl and co-founded Metaphor Data, where he built a modern metadata platform. He previously co-created DataHub at LinkedIn after engineering Google Cloud and Gboard infrastructure.

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Mars Lan is a senior staff engineer at Cribl and co-founded Metaphor Data, where he built a modern metadata platform. He previously co-created DataHub at LinkedIn after engineering Google Cloud and Gboard infrastructure.

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Senior Staff Engineer at Cribl from 2025-04 to Present
Co-founder and CTO at Metaphor Data from 2020-11 to 2025-04
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn from 2017-01 to 2020-11
Senior Software Engineer at Google from 2015-12 to 2017-01
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The Grand Rewrite of DataHub

A substantive first-person engineering account of rebuilding LinkedIn's open-source metadata platform.

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