Steven Chu
Software Engineer at Block
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Chu is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems, data infrastructure, and distributed data processing pipelines. He engineers analytical (S3, Redshift) and transactional (MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB) stores and writes services in Python, Go, Java, and Rust. With an MS in Analytics and Machine Learning from the University of San Francisco, he has shipped production ML personalization at Yelp and improved core data platforms at Facebook. Now working at Block and OptalX, he focuses on OLTP systems and intelligent ad-budget allocation while remaining an active open-source contributor—his work added timezone-aware SQLite timestamps to the popular Rust ORM Diesel. A former math teacher with a BS in Mathematics and English Literature, he combines quantitative rigor with strong communication to lead cross-functional projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Analytics at University of San FranciscoBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; English Literature, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; English Literature at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
220reached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (16)
chrono10
sqlite310
rust10
chronos10
sqlite10
orm10
sqlite-310
query-builder9
sql8
json6
hibernate6
weighted6
python6
ranking6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
diesel-rs/diesel
Mar 2022 - May 2022
A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to implementing timestamp with timezone support for SQLite within the Diesel ORM. They modified the `chrono.rs` file to handle date and time conversions, and made changes to other files to accommodate the new type. These changes included adding the new type to the sql_types module and the sqlite module. They also added and modified tests to verify the correct encoding and decoding of timestamps.
querymysqlrustsqlbuilder
chusteven/coding-interview-prep
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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