David Chen
CEO at GliaCloud Co., Ltd.
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a founder and CEO with 13 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, AI and ad-tech products, currently leading GliaCloud from Richmond, BC. A Google Cloud Developer Expert and former CTO of Taiwan ad-tech startup Tagtoo, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership and a history of shipping production-grade systems. His open-source contributions include bug fixes and test improvements to the widely used google-cloud-python client library, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability in data storage and protobuf handling. A passionate Pythonist who prototypes video, FFmpeg and AI tooling, he also has eclectic research interests — publishing papers on videogames and ramen that have attracted citations — and a playful competitive streak evidenced by winning the Python Bee blind coding contest.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational Finance and Risk Management, Master's degree Computational Finance and Risk Management at University of WashingtonMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityBritish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Garage+
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
data-storage10
google-app-engine10
python10
protobuffer10
gcloud10
protobuf10
datastore10
encoding9
testing9
byte9
reverse-lookup6
foreign-keys6
google-cloud-storage6
admin6
unicode6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Google Cloud Client Library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Google Cloud Client Library for Python by fixing data storage-related issues. Their contributions involved modifying helper functions and test cases to correctly handle null values, ensuring proper protobuf object initialization, and addressing list indexing problems. The user also added a test case to improve code coverage and ensure correct behavior. These changes directly impacted the functionality and reliability of the library's data storage components.
gcpappenginepythongoogleclient-library
Tagtoo/oauth2-appengine
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
oauth2oauthapp-engineruns
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