Andy Chen
Technical Lead at ByteDance
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Chen is a seasoned distributed systems engineer and startup CTO with 14 years of experience building high-performance storage, caching, and database kernels across Microsoft, Alibaba, ByteDance, and his own venture. He co-founded Great Yu Data & AI and led innovation on PolarDB-M at Alibaba while earlier driving Azure Storage and Confidential Compute efforts at Microsoft, showing deep expertise in large-scale, production-critical systems. Author of the C++ Raft implementation "cornerstone"—used by NuRaft and ClickHouse—he demonstrates a pragmatic, code-first approach summed up by his GitHub motto "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." Based in Sammamish, WA, Andy combines systems-level debugging chops from early OS work with contemporary cloud-native design, making him adept at both low-level reliability fixes and high-level architecture for distributed services.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at East China Normal University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (38)
pinch-to-zoom10
ios10
flutter-plugin10
windows10
cross-platform10
desktop10
material-design10
rotate10
android10
mobile10
web-framework10
macos10
dart10
flutter10
mobile-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
criswonder/gitlearn
Nov 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
criswonder/wonderful
Feb 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 6 months
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