Austin Chen
Software Engineer at TikTok
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Chen is a software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently building scalable systems at TikTok from his base in California. He blends backend and frontend expertise—Python, Java, C++, Node.js, Django, Spring Boot, React and Vue—alongside cloud and infra tooling like Docker, Azure, Hadoop, Redis and MongoDB. His background includes accelerating mortgage loan origination workflows by 200% through a Node.js user-management platform and integrating Firebase-based authentication and role-based access for complex LOS environments. A Northeastern CS master's graduate with a bachelor's in electrical engineering, he has practical experience in database infrastructure and distributed processing (MapReduce/Hadoop) that informs his work on performant, production-grade services. Notably, he also led a cross-functional intern team to deliver ADA-compliant hotkeys and session security features, showing a mix of technical depth and product-minded UX sensitivity.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at National Central UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (40)
c-language10
redis10
pika10
lmdb10
io-uring10
storage10
industrial10
rpc10
high-performance10
nosql9
machine-learning9
rocksdb9
infrastructure9
redis-server8
bigtable8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
koolhazz/LuaGameEngine
Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
koolhazz/example
Jul 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 76 commits, 97 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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