Dan Chen
Software Engineering Lead at Apryse
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Chen is a software engineering lead with 15 years of experience blending academic rigor and product-focused engineering, currently leading development at Apryse in Vancouver. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has deep expertise in computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and implementing high-performance algorithms in C/C++ and Java. At Apryse he transitioned core C++ PDF SDK capabilities to web platforms via WebAssembly and Node.js, pairing systems-level performance with modern web delivery. His contributions to an open-content data structures textbook (implementing BSTs, Treaps, B-Trees and sorting analyses) reflect a commitment to clear, rigorous implementations and teaching. Previously he built ETL pipelines and R&D tools for complex domains like IC repairability and large-scale analytics at Visier and Blackcomb, demonstrating versatility across research and production stacks. Notably, his background includes formulating integer programs and parallel implementations for data depth problems, showing an unusual combination of theoretical optimization and practical parallel software engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Carleton UniversityMaster of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of New BrunswickBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Liaoning University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (9)
algorithm10
data-structures10
javas10
algorithms10
btree10
binary-search-tree10
java10
data-structure10
sorting-algorithms10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
patmorin/ods
Feb 2011 - Dec 2019
Mission: To provide a high-quality open content data structures textbook that is both mathematically rigorous and provides complete implementations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:687 commits, 24 PRs, 95 pushes in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan appears to be contributing to a data structures textbook project. Their commits reveal the implementation of core data structures like Binary Search Trees, Treaps, and a B-Tree, as well as modifications to other data structures, such as ArrayQueue and Adjacency Matrix. The contributions also included code for sorting algorithms and their analysis.
implementationscrosswordopen-contenttextbookhigh-quality
patmorin/patmorin.github.io
Dec 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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