Mason Chen
Software Engineer - Gen AI Platform
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMason Chen is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building large-scale streaming and GenAI platforms. He currently works on Apple's Gen AI Platform after leading the design and implementation of an AI/ML Data Platform built on Apache Flink and Spark, focusing on SDKs/connectors, control plane, metrics, Kubernetes, AWS, and auth. An active Apache Flink committer and on-call maintainer, he has contributed notable backend work around metrics and Prometheus integration (including PushGateway) and fixes for Kafka source initialization, and has presented at Flink Forward SF. His background spans enterprise product work at PlayStation and applied ML research—authoring an IEEE conference paper on sparse Gaussian processes—reflecting a rare blend of streaming systems, observability, and statistical modeling. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics from UC Berkeley.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, BA Computer Science; BA Statistics; BA Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, BA Computer Science; BA Statistics; BA Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
kafka10
flinksql10
apache-flink10
java10
metric10
big-data9
scala27
scala7
google-cloud-messaging6
amazon-web-services6
android6
amazon-sns6
sql5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 reviews, 6 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mason's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Flink codebase, specifically in the area of metrics and Prometheus integration. They added support for configuring additional variables within metric reporters, improving flexibility. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to handling missing timestamps for Kafka source initialization, and also added metrics for Prometheus PushGatewayReporter integration. The changes involved modifications to several Java files, reflecting backend development tasks.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
mas-chen/flink-connector-kafka
Nov 2022 - Apr 2024
Apache flink
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 132 pushes in 1 year 5 months
avrosinkflinkconnectorapache
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