Alex Chen
Software Engineer at The Linux Foundation
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and data-focused platforms, currently on the engineering team at Robinhood and an active Presto committer for The Linux Foundation. He blends production experience from internships at AWS, Nuro, Rippling and hands-on data engineering work—designing CDC pipelines and scalable Delta table ingestion—that inform his approach to observability and performance. With MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, he moves comfortably between backend systems, data tooling, and telemetry integrations, having authored the Presto OpenTelemetry plugin. Based in the New York City area, he’s driven by shipping consumer-scalable projects and expanding language and tooling fluency, bringing a practitioner’s focus on reliability and data integrity to every codebase.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringUniversity of California, Los AngelesRuben S. Ayala High School
Github Skills (90)
looker10
vega10
data-warehouse10
metadata10
material-ui10
data-management10
etl10
react-components10
javascript10
datahub10
big-data10
data-analytics10
mui10
altair10
vega-lite10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ANich/writing
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ANich/datahub
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
The Metadata Platform for the Modern Data Stack
Contributions:26 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
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