Ting-hao Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTing-hao Chen is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with eight years of backend and distributed systems experience, currently building core infrastructure at the Stellar Development Foundation. He has deep expertise in Go and blockchain backend services, contributing to Stellar's widely used go monorepo by fixing critical Horizon issues, optimizing database queries, and hardening path payment flows. Previously he improved scalability and recovery features at Oracle and built concurrent, multi-server payment and trustline systems for Interstellar and Chain. His background spans mechanical and electrical engineering masters work, giving him a systems-level mindset that combines low-level performance tuning with product-focused API design. Notably, he’s comfortable operating in high-stakes, production-critical environments—repairing database recovery paths at Oracle and resolving panics in blockchain backfills at Stellar. He pairs rigorous engineering discipline with practical product instincts, often tackling subtle infrastructure problems that quietly improve reliability and efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityProduct Management, Credit Received, Product Management, Credit Received at Stanford Continuing StudiesMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
cryptocurrency10
go10
postgresql10
blockchain10
database-optimization9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/go-stellar-sdk
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Stellar's Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 41 reviews, 113 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ting-hao made several contributions focused on the back-end functionality of the Stellar Go code repository. They addressed critical issues, such as fixing panics in horizon database backfills and resolving incorrect behavior in path payments. Furthermore, the user optimized account queries for payments and operations, indicating a focus on database performance and efficiency. The user's work involved modifying core components of the horizon service, highlighting expertise in the underlying infrastructure of the Stellar network.
gostellarblockchaincryptocurrencyhorizon
BestSilverTiger/stellar-protocol
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Developer discussion about possible changes to the protocol.
Contributions:28 commits in 1 month
ethereumblockchainchanges
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