Chen Shou
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolChen Shou is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, serverless, and event-driven systems across top-tier companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Databricks. He has deep backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Knative Eventing and the CloudEvents Go SDK—where he improved reliability, observability, and Pub/Sub semantics. At Microsoft he helped ship Azure Container Instance and Azure CLI features, and at Google he worked on serverless artifact and registry systems, blending platform engineering with AI-focused artifact analysis. Comfortable across Go, .NET, and cloud APIs, he repeatedly bridges SDKs, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines to reduce operational friction. A lifelong learner based in Seattle, he’s the kind of engineer who surfaces practical fixes (immutable specs, ack/nack handling, unique identifiers for metrics) that prevent hard-to-debug production issues.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tongji UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (60)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
python10
cloud-computing10
azure-sdk10
testing10
cloudevents10
net10
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
load-balancing10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
knative/eventing
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Event-driven application platform for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 89 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chen made several contributions focused on improving the Knative Eventing project. Their work includes making the `broker.spec.channelTemplate` immutable, removing an unnecessary broker ingress channel, renaming a release artifact, and modifying the default Prometheus port. The user also refactored the stats reporter in several components to incorporate a unique identifier.
eventingeventscloudeventsspecificationdeveloper-productivity
cloudevents/sdk-go
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Go SDK for CloudEvents
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily focused on enhancing the Pub/Sub transport within the CloudEvents Go SDK. Their contributions include implementing features such as the ability to configure Pub/Sub receive settings, allowing for greater control over the subscription. Furthermore, the user refactored the pubsub protocol to correctly handle acknowledgments and negative acknowledgments (ack/nack) for Pub/Sub messages. They also added tests, improved error handling, and corrected some tests to ensure the reliability of the Pub/Sub implementation.
golangcloudeventssdkalibabacncf
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.