Summary
Chonghan Chen is a software engineer with six years of experience building scalable, distributed data infrastructure, currently working on Snowflake’s warehouse runtime in Mountain View. He has driven high-throughput systems at Lacework—building an in-house Lakehouse and an Ephemeral Job Controller that schedules millions of short-lived jobs and manages tens of pod operations per second—demonstrating deep expertise in orchestration, Kubernetes, and data platform cost optimization. His background spans full-stack and embedded systems: founding engineer experience delivering IoT devices and Android controller apps shipped to production, plus IBM and research roles that blend systems reliability with machine-learning robustness. Comfortable shuttling between backend distributed systems, cloud-native tooling, and frontend product surfaces, he’s also contributed as a teaching assistant and community member, showing a sustained interest in mentoring and technical leadership. An unusual strength is his end-to-end ownership from circuit and device-level work to large-scale cloud jobs orchestration, making him adept at connecting low-level constraints to production-grade data services.
6 years of coding experience