Summary
Chen Ling is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-availability payment and data systems, most recently leading development of JPMorgan Chase’s payment settlement platform using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud services. He has a strong data engineering background from roles at Capital One and ISI, where he built streaming pipelines and human-guided ML tooling handling millions of events. Chen blends backend microservices expertise with practical analytics—designing billing and statement infrastructure at WePay and optimizing campaign pipelines in Snowflake/Databricks. Now at Palo Alto Networks, he brings fintech-grade reliability and real-time reconciliation know-how to security-oriented systems. Unusually, his career spans both deep data science research (PET image simulation) and large-scale transaction engineering, giving him a rare perspective on accuracy, performance, and operational integrity.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Informatics, Master of Science - MS Data Informatics at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree Management Information System, Bachelor's degree Management Information System at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Management Information Systems General, Management Information Systems General at University of Florida
Chinese, Chinese