Chen Xu
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Xu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Shanghai with about 20 years of commercial development experience and 13 years of focused industry roles spanning security, search, big data and cloud platforms. He has led architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems at Baidu and dianping and currently drives backend and data engineering efforts at Microsoft, bringing deep expertise in massively parallel computing and information security. His open-source contributions include refactoring data source handling and improving UDF/SQL registries in the enterprise-scale Feathr feature engineering platform, reflecting practical improvements to data ingestion and reliability. Comfortable across embedded, Unix and Windows environments, Chen combines low-level systems know-how with production-grade big data and cloud architecture. Notably, his career blends hands-on coding with platform leadership—shipping search engines at eBay, security products at Trend Micro, and large data platforms at top Chinese tech companies.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Northwest University
English
Github Skills (11)
data-engineering10
datasources10
spark10
feature-engineering10
datasource10
scala10
sql9
jdbc9
feature-store9
configuration-management9
apache-spark9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
feathr-ai/feathr
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Feathr – A scalable, unified data and AI engineering platform for enterprise
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:179 reviews, 69 commits, 93 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily focused on refactoring and improving the data source configurations within the Feathr platform. They made significant changes to the `InputLocation` and `Jdbc` configurations, enabling better data loading and handling for various data sources, including JDBC and SQL queries. These changes involved modifying existing code and adding test cases to ensure functionality. They also improved UDF and SQL registry functionalities.
feature-storedata-qualitydata-scienceenterprise-grademlops
windoze/dgraph
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
graph-dbdatabasegraphgraph-databasedistributed
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