Daniel Chen
Staff Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Chen is a Staff Software Engineer based in California with eight years building production stream-processing infrastructure at LinkedIn, specializing in Flink, Beam, and Apache Samza. As an Apache Samza committer and long-time streams infrastructure engineer, he blends open-source stewardship with hands-on systems design to deliver resilient, large-scale data pipelines. He progressed from intern to staff engineer at LinkedIn, driving low-latency, fault-tolerant streaming platforms that power real-time features across the company. A Waterloo CS graduate, Daniel pairs strong academic foundations with practical experience in backend systems, distributed coordination, and performance tuning. Beyond day-to-day engineering, he contributes upstream to Samza, influencing the ecosystem his teams run on and accelerating adoption of robust streaming patterns.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Honours Co-op Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Honours Co-op Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
messaging10
catalog10
python10
beam10
big-data10
apache10
java10
scala10
sql10
data-processing10
golang10
batch10
streaming10
streaming-data10
apache-beam9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/beam
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming
Contributions:1 release, 27 reviews, 107 commits in 3 years 10 months
stream-processingbeambatchstreamingapache
dxichen/samza
Sep 2017 - May 2023
Mirror of Apache Samza
Contributions:7 PRs, 167 pushes, 57 branches in 5 years 9 months
javasamzaapache
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