Davin Chia
Chief Technology Officer at Airbyte
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavin Chia is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput systems. He helped bootstrap Airbyte from its early engineering foundation—designing its Kubernetes deployments, connector SDK, logging and monitoring layers—and later led Airbyte Cloud’s infrastructure and revenue-facing technical strategy. Prior to Airbyte, he scaled real-time and API platforms at LiveRamp, driving migrations to Kubernetes/GCP and cutting build times dramatically through mono-repo tooling. An active back-end contributor to notable open-source projects like airbytehq/airbyte, he combines hands-on Java/Go engineering with product-level ownership. His background also includes published algorithmic research and leadership experience in the Singapore Armed Forces, reflecting a blend of rigorous technical depth and disciplined operational execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Middlebury CollegeHigh School International Baccalaureate Diploma, High School International Baccalaureate Diploma at Anglo Chinese School (Independent)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
database-management10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 2660 reviews, 506 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Davin's contributions primarily focused on enhancements to the back-end of the Airbyte data integration platform, with changes observed in several Java files related to job processing, database persistence, and API interactions. Specific commits demonstrate work on error handling, integration testing of database operations and code formatting, including the implementation of a new API route. These contributions showcase a strong understanding of the platform's architecture and data management processes.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
treeverse/airbyte
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.
Contributions:126 commits in 1 month
data-sciencedata-ingestionsqlbigquerychange-data-capture
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