Elliot Chen
VP Of Technical Service And Product at PAX Technology, Inc. (North America)
Beijing, United States
Summary
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RockstarElliot Chen is a seasoned engineering leader and product executive with over two decades of hands-on software and systems experience and a recent focus as VP of Technical Service and Product at PAX Technology (North America). He combines deep backend engineering chops—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the Go-based nutsdb key/value store, where he improved fd caching, tests and core sync logic—with product and operational leadership across payments and embedded systems. Elliot has repeatedly scaled teams and technical roadmaps through roles from technical lead and architect to general manager and senior director across multinational payments vendors. He is fluent in shipping robust, embeddable systems for constrained environments and favors pragmatic problem solving over ideology, as his GitHub motto suggests. Based in Beijing with experience across the U.S. market, he bridges global product strategy and low-level implementation details. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who refactors both code and org processes to deliver measurable reliability improvements.
4 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
databases10
go10
key-value-store10
data-structure10
database10
concurrency9
testing9
caching8
golang8
uitableview6
eclipse6
makefile6
iphone6
windows-installer6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nutsdb/nutsdb
May 2022 - Dec 2022
A simple, fast, embeddable, persistent key/value store written in pure Go. It supports fully serializable transactions and many data structures such as list, set, sorted set.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 88 reviews, 35 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the `nutsdb/nutsdb` repository by adding and modifying file descriptor (fd) caching mechanisms, including tests for the fd manager. They fixed unit test errors and addressed review comments to improve code quality. Furthermore, the user refactored and optimized the code by changing sync operations, deleting unnecessary code and fixing a bug.
golangsupports-transactionskv-storenutsdbpure-go
elliotchenzichang/tiny-bitcask
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
build a tiny kv store base on Bitcask
Contributions:2 reviews, 36 commits, 24 PRs in 4 months
kvstoretinykv-storebitcaskdatabase
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