Chen Song
Engineering Manager at Two Sigma
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Song is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and distributed systems, currently leading platform engineering and time-series database efforts at Two Sigma. He spent the prior decade designing and operating high-throughput advertising technology pipelines at AppNexus, where his teams processed over 60 billion daily events using Hadoop, Kafka, Spark and NoSQL stacks. Known for blending hands-on system design with technical leadership, he consistently turns complex data challenges into operationally robust platforms. His background spans finance and consultancy early in his career, giving him a pragmatic approach to reliability and performance under real-world constraints. Based in Jersey City, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with deep domain expertise in ad tech and big data. Colleagues would note his penchant for tackling the hardest scaling problems rather than incremental optimizations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University at AlbanyB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (37)
apache9
messaging9
avro9
java9
scala9
parquet9
big-data8
trading7
coinbase7
currency-exchange-rates7
gdax-api6
csv6
api6
producer6
scraper6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garlicbulb-puzhuo/mifen
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 11 months
garlicbulb-puzhuo/parquet-mr
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
parquetapachebig-dataapache-parquetjava
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