Alex Chen
Software Engineer at The Linux Foundation
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and data-focused platforms, currently on the engineering team at Robinhood and an active Presto committer for The Linux Foundation. He blends production experience from internships at AWS, Nuro, Rippling and hands-on data engineering work—designing CDC pipelines and scalable Delta table ingestion—that inform his approach to observability and performance. With MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, he moves comfortably between backend systems, data tooling, and telemetry integrations, having authored the Presto OpenTelemetry plugin. Based in the New York City area, he’s driven by shipping consumer-scalable projects and expanding language and tooling fluency, bringing a practitioner’s focus on reliability and data integrity to every codebase.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringUniversity of California, Los AngelesRuben S. Ayala High School
Github Skills (55)
data-governance10
visualization10
react-components10
bigquery10
react-component-library10
looker10
datahub10
metadata10
material-ui10
etl10
material-design10
ai10
lookml10
data-catalog10
mozilla10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ANich/writing
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
mozilla/mozilla-datahub-ingestion
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
This repository contains code for sending metadata from Mozilla-specific platforms to a DataHub instance.
Contributions:101 reviews, 116 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 6 months
datahub
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