Chia-wei Chang
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChia-wei Chang is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale data and ML infrastructure, currently on Apple's Apply Machine Learning team in Sunnyvale. He has driven backend and big-data platform work at LinkedIn, Robinhood, and Google, specializing in algorithm design, system infrastructure, and ML-driven ranking and signals. He contributed to the open-source Azkaban workflow manager—adding event-based Kafka triggers and enhanced access controls—showing a knack for operationally robust workflow automation. Comfortable across low-level system engineering and production ML pipelines, he has delivered high-throughput networking, real-time robotic control, and enterprise data provisioning. Known for turning research-grade ideas into production systems, he pairs a strong CS master’s background with pragmatic engineering that scales.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.4/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.4/4.0 at National Chung Cheng UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at Texas A&M University
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
kafka10
workflow-engine10
java10
scheduling9
regex8
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
azkaban/azkaban
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Azkaban workflow manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chia-wei primarily contributed to Azkaban's features related to workflow management and event triggers. They implemented a configurable access error message and enhanced the system with event-based flow triggering, allowing workflows to be triggered by Kafka events. Additionally, the user worked on documentation updates for using Azkaban, including the flow view, project permissions and execution features.
workflow-engineschedulingazkabanworkflow
weidious/azkaban
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Azkaban workflow manager.
Contributions:14 PRs, 41 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
iftttazkabanworkflow
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