Ethan Chen
Software Engineer at Oculus VR
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Chen is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building system-level and embedded software for Android and VR platforms, currently working on Oculus/Meta Quest projects in Mountain View. He combines deep kernel- and build-system expertise—demonstrated by contributions to CyanogenMod, AOKP, and AOSP vendor/kernel tooling—with practical device driver work such as USB and Razer peripheral support. Comfortable across cloud and low-level stacks from a stint on CloudFront at Amazon to healthd and charger/backlight code in Android, he favors open source and frequently publishes practical engineering improvements. His background in shipping platform features for mobile and VR hardware gives him a unique perspective on bridging firmware, HALs, and user-space services.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (29)
c-language10
qualcomm10
linux10
kernel-module10
android-build10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
kernel10
driver10
sys10
kernel-mode10
android10
build-automation10
embedded10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AOKP/vendor_aokp
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Role in this project:
System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:29 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily focused on modifying the build system and kernel-related configurations within the AOKP repository. Their contributions involved restructuring the build process, optimizing kernel module handling, and adapting to the requirements of newer Android versions, specifically Oreo. The user introduced improvements for Qualcomm targets, updated include paths for Control Flow Integrity (CFI) and made the build system more efficient by removing deprecated features. Their work demonstrates a focus on core system architecture and build infrastructure.
openrazer/openrazer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on GNU/Linux
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the driver code, focusing on device ID definitions and report structures for Razer peripherals. They cleaned up USB ID definitions across multiple device driver files for Razer keyboards, mice, and mousemats. The user also addressed the initialization of structures related to report handling and implemented new functionality to support Razer Goliathus mouse mats.
openrazerdriverpythonrazer-devicesdaemon
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