Jiayu Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiayu Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building production-grade web services and NLP-driven features for analytics products. He helped take Tableau’s Ask Data from alpha to GA, architecting the dynamic semantic model and early microservices that power natural-language BI, and later led a small engineering team as scrum master to improve delivery. At Uber now, he continues to apply full-stack expertise across distributed systems, asynchronous job processing, and data-driven services. His background includes hands-on front-end work (React/Angular) and backend APIs (Spring), and he has a practical knack for modernizing legacy stacks while keeping user-facing features reliable. Unusually, his career blends deep product-focused NLP work with early-career GIS and visualization experience, giving him a strong sense for both data and UX.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gonzaga UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
jasmine8
cucumber8
devtools8
kubernetes-node7
yelp7
webdriverio7
nodejs6
automation6
javascript6
webdriver6
mobile-automation6
test-framework5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jiayuc/NightyNight
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
jiayuc/FoodiePal
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 issue in 7 months
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