Su Chen is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, cloud-native backend systems for consumer devices and games. Currently at Amazon, Su has led efforts to migrate ad serving and reporting to native AWS at billion-request scale while mentoring junior engineers and driving sprint planning. Past roles include building robust ETL and Airflow pipelines at Nexon and optimizing game backend performance and reliability at Gaea Mobile and Kabam. An active open-source contributor, Su implemented MQTT proxy support and Kafka integration for the Cloud Native Easegress traffic orchestration project, showing a knack for protocol work and performance tuning. Academically grounded with an MS in Computer Science and a history of GPU-accelerated research, Su combines systems-level rigor with hands-on delivery and a hacker’s curiosity for practical optimizations.
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 673 reviews, 87 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Su significantly contributed to the MQTT proxy functionality within the Easegress project, implementing features for MQTT support. This included adding core components like Kafka producer integration, session management, authentication, and topic mapping. The user also optimized performance, addressed bugs, and expanded testing for improved reliability.
Contributions:2 PRs, 290 pushes, 137 branches in 11 months
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