De Lan is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently developing ASP.NET web applications at Google from Sunnyvale. He brings strong multi-language fluency in C#, TypeScript, C++, Python and Java, and a track record of designing microservices, admin notification systems, and UI features using Azure, React and Angular. At Citrix he led initiatives as acting product owner and team lead, combining TDD and agile practices to deliver production-ready features; earlier work includes high-impact backend performance gains on IoT and AWS-based systems. An active contributor to the CDAP open-source data analytics framework, he implemented pipeline trigger feature flags and extended StructuredTable capabilities—demonstrating comfort with core infrastructure and data-platform internals. He holds a master’s from Duke (3.9/4.0) and a strong research background in computer vision and deep learning, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and algorithmic depth.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at Duke University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA 3.81/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA 3.81/4.0 at Beihang University
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:652 reviews, 129 commits, 166 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:De primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the CDAP framework by adding feature flags, specifically for pipeline triggers. They implemented support for configuring composite triggers within the data pipeline base. The user also worked on extending StructuredTableAdmin to add support for adding new columns and indices. They made changes to the DraftStore, adding parentversion. Additionally, the user worked on extending scan and sort by index in StructuredTable.
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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