Bowei Chen
Software Engineer (Query Precessing) at Snowflake Computing
California, United States
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Top SchoolBowei Chen is a software engineer in California with nine years of experience specializing in large-scale query compilation and execution, currently building query processing at Snowflake. He combines academic rigor from CMU—where he contributed a cascade-based query optimizer for the Peloton research DBMS—with production experience implementing high-throughput streaming ingestion at Google. His GitHub work on Peloton shows a deep, hands-on focus on SQL parsing and query semantics (joins, ORDER BY, aggregates), which complements his day-to-day work on compiler-like query pipelines. Comfortable bridging research and production, Bowei brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to complex query systems and a fondness for returning to Git for polished, reliable code.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, School of Computer Science, Master of Science, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
sql-parser10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
parsing10
dbms10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/peloton
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:163 commits, 8 PRs, 110 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bowei primarily contributed to the development and testing of database parser functionality within the Peloton project. Their commits focused on adding and modifying test cases for various SQL features, including column updates, distinct clauses, projections, and aggregate functions. They also worked on implementing functionality for order by clauses and join clauses in the parser, indicating a focus on improving SQL query processing.
management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase
chenboy/conf
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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