Chae Jubb is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and distributed data infrastructure, currently at Airtable in New York. Their career includes core systems work at Dropbox and Stripe, payments engineering at Justworks, and exporting real-time streams at Materialize, where they contributed SQL parsing and persistence improvements to a well-regarded open-source streaming database. Comfortable across databases, sync engines, and payments, Chae has repeatedly delivered idempotent, extensible systems and performance-focused refactors. They hold master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Columbia and bring a blend of academic teaching experience and hands-on contributions to production-grade, low-latency services. A detail-minded engineer, they’ve improved database efficiency through indexing and enhanced SQL operator support—work that reflects both systems-level thinking and practical optimizations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at South Western High School
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Columbia University
Real-time Data Integration and Transformation: use SQL to transform, deliver, and act on fast-changing data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:308 reviews, 100 commits, 167 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chae primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to SQL support and operator enhancements, demonstrating a focus on backend logic. They added support for `IS BOOLEAN` operators and implemented the `LIST(SUBQUERY)` syntax, indicating work on query parsing and evaluation. The user also made changes related to data persistence, including the addition of an index to a timestamps table, which improved the efficiency of the database operation.
Contributions:120 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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