David Chen
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building production systems across databases, cloud services, and front-end tools, currently working on MySQL infrastructure at Databricks. He combines a strong math and CS background from Harvey Mudd with a track record of impactful internships at Databricks, Stripe, and Google, where he shipped durable workflows, cross-language gRPC tooling, and a JupyterLab extension for Vertex AI Pipelines. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he’s optimized multithreaded checksumming to double validation speed, authored sysbench traffic generators, and automated client generation with Bazel. As a founding engineer at InternHub and an early YC-backed intern, he pairs product sensibility with low-level engineering rigor. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on AI-driven automation, games, and robotics while bringing an unusual blend of production database reliability and developer tooling experience for young engineers.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics, High School Summer Program, Robotics, High School Summer Program at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegePrinceton High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
python10
control-flow-graph10
cyclomatic-complexity10
single-instance10
klee10
insert10
complexity10
desktop-application9
cpp9
wsl29
java9
crop-image9
loss9
linux8
drawing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dchen327/reddit-username-generator
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
A Deep Learning based Reddit username generator
Contributions:79 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 8 days
pythondeep-learningusername-generatormachine-learningreddit
dchen327/ruzzle-solver
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
A python script that solves ruzzle boards
Contributions:43 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
ruzzlepythonpython-script
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