Eric Chen
Sr. Software Engineer at Atlassian
Pleasanton, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Chen is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 15+ years building high-availability, cloud-native distributed systems across enterprise products at Workday, Cloudera, SAP, and now Atlassian. He specializes in performance and cost optimization—driving multi-million-record processing speedups (up to 85%) and a 70% reduction in cloud spend—while architecting resilient services that improved availability to 99.9%. Comfortable across the stack, Eric combines deep systems experience (Kafka, Kubernetes, HDFS, Java) with pragmatic automation and CI/CD practices to streamline platform upgrades and incident response. He’s known for turning complex data workflows into efficient, maintainable services and for mentoring teams to operational excellence. Based in Pleasanton, CA, he pairs strong academic grounding from Fudan and Tokyo Tech with a track record of measurable impact in large-scale SaaS environments.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Mathematics & Computing Science, Master, Mathematics & Computing Science at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Fudan University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
compose9
autocomplete9
databases8
data-warehouse7
sql7
sql-query6
database6
mysql5
postgresql5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
hortonworks/hue-release
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
cloudera/hue
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch in 1 day
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
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