Summary
Chris Lan is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable stream and batch data platforms using Scala, Python, Spark, Flink, Kafka and cloud services. Currently driving streaming and full-stack data workloads at Disney Streaming after senior roles at Hulu and Yelp, he focuses on reliable, production-grade systems that grow with users and data. He started in mechanical engineering and brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset to infrastructure and orchestration problems—from Airflow and EMR to GCP and Docker. An approachable mentor who enjoys helping early-career engineers, he pairs hands-on implementation with a taste for elegant, maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine