Chifeng Chou
Senior Software Engineer at Bitdefender
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolChifeng Chou is a senior software engineer and cloud specialist with 17 years of experience building reliable, performance-focused systems across security, telecom, and embedded domains. Based in Singapore, he has driven serverless architectures, ETL pipelines, and CI/CD/IaC practices that improved processing speed and deployment reliability, and now contributes at Bitdefender after senior cloud engineering leadership at Horangi. He combines deep systems knowledge—from Linux kernel modules and networking stacks to database internals—with practical product work like billing, licensing, and REST backends. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the stability of the well-known hystrix-go circuit breaker by fixing race conditions and strengthening test coverage. Known for mentoring junior engineers and spotting hard-to-find performance bottlenecks, he blends hands-on coding with architecture and operational rigor. His MSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh underpins a pragmatic, research-informed approach to complex engineering problems.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBachelor Management Information System, Bachelor Management Information System at National Central University
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Github Skills (16)
go10
circuit-breaker10
concurrency10
testing10
resource-management9
error-handling9
variance6
actor6
mqtt6
gis6
geospatial6
akka6
spray6
scala6
haskell6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
afex/hystrix-go
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Netflix's Hystrix latency and fault tolerance library, for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chifeng primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the `hystrix-go` library. Their contributions included fixing race conditions, particularly in the `Do()` method, and ensuring proper resource management by addressing ticket return mechanisms. They also implemented tests, including quick checks, to validate the fix for potential issues and uncovered race conditions within the circuit breaker's event reporting.
golanghystrixnetflixtolerancefault
cfchou/serverless-python-individually
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
A serverless framework plugin to install multiple lambda functions written in python.
Contributions:55 commits, 9 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythonlambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdaplugin-framework
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