Chen Luo - Software Engineer at Figma

Chen Luo

Software Engineer at Figma

New York, New York, United States

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Chen Luo is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and observability systems, currently on Figma’s Foundation Server Platform team in New York. Previously at Airbnb he designed and rolled out high-throughput metric pipelines and autoscaling aggregation services that saved the company millions while improving reliability for thousands of engineers. His background spans distributed systems, databases, and telemetry—evidenced by contributions to the CMU peloton self-driving DB project where he extended SQL parsing and constraint support and added robust binder tests. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and Michigan, he combines systems-level rigor with production-driven pragmatism and a track record of turning complex data-flow problems into maintainable, cost-effective platforms.

11 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Michigan

Master of Computational Data Science - System Track Computer Science, Master of Computational Data Science - System Track Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor’s Degree Electrical & Computer Engineering UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical & Computer Engineering UM-SJTU Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

English, Chinese, German

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Github Skills (11)

databases10

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

sql10

relational-databases10

sql-database10

database10

testing10

parser9

dbms8

dbm8

Programming languages (2)

JavaC++

Github contributions (5)

cmu-db/peloton

Feb 2017 - Dec 2017

The Self-Driving Database Management System

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Database Engineer

Contributions:127 commits, 5 PRs, 45 comments in 10 months

Contributions summary:Chen's commits primarily focus on testing and binding related to database operations within the Peloton project. They added test cases for the binder component, specifically for select, delete, and create statements. The user also implemented support for primary key and foreign key constraints within the parser, extending its functionality. The work demonstrates expertise in database interaction and SQL parsing within the context of the database management system.

management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase

luochenUmich/Hangout

Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days

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