Eric Chen
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Chen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vancouver with over a decade of experience building high-performance, data-driven systems and real-time visualizations. He has led engineering efforts at Salesforce and Copperleaf, shipping privacy and SaaS solutions that span backend Java/C++ services, Spring-based APIs, and rich front-end visualizations (historically Adobe Flex and modern web stacks). Eric combines distributed systems expertise—message decoding, configuration generation, and time-correction algorithms for large ATM fleets—with hands-on ML and Spark work for fraud detection, enabling analytics-ready pipelines. Comfortable across the stack (Java, C++, Python, HTML/CSS/JS) and fluent in agile and test-driven practices, he’s known for turning complex domain constraints into practical, scalable solutions and for optimizing performance where browser or system limits matter. An early adopter of visualization-driven UX for operations monitoring, he brings a pragmatic leadership style that balances architecture, delivery, and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
artillery10
calculator8
discord-bot6
explore5
bots4
jflex4
embedding4
python3
gradle-plugin3
bnf3
intellij3
wireguard2
vpn2
intellij-plugin2
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
earthgrazer/foxhole-artillery-calc
Jan 2018 - Nov 2021
Foxhole artillery calculator
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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earthgrazer/codereviewer
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:13 PRs, 38 pushes, 10 branches in 15 days
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