Chenyu Shi is a software engineer with 8 years of experience focused on infrastructure, distributed systems, and database engineering, currently contributing at JobDiva in New York. He combines a strong backend tech stack (Spring ecosystem, JPA/Hibernate, REST, WebSocket) with practical database experience in MySQL and MongoDB and deployment tooling like Docker and Git. Trained originally in chemistry and chemical engineering (HK Polytechnic, Columbia), he brings experimental rigor and a researcher's mindset to systems design and performance tuning. His background includes academic research roles where he developed synthesis routes and studied reaction mechanisms, signaling an unusual blend of lab-based problem solving and production software engineering. Also pursuing bioinformatics research as a PhD student on GitHub, he bridges data-driven scientific inquiry with scalable backend implementations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, well-documented solutions that translate complex requirements into reliable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Master’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Chemical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
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