Gang Chen
Founder at Acrosync LLC
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGang Chen is a founder and software engineer with 11+ years of experience building reliable cross-platform backup and synchronization solutions from New York. As founder of Acrosync LLC he leads development of products like Acrosync, Duplicacy, and Vertical Backup, focusing on robust data integrity and efficient cross-backend storage. He contributed core backend functionality to the popular open-source Duplicacy cloud backup tool, implementing storage backends, chunk handling, and integrations such as Dropbox and Google Drive. His background spans engineering roles at Bloomberg, Sandvine, and Xerocole, combining enterprise-grade systems experience with startup agility. Trained at Rensselaer (PhD in Computer Science) and Tsinghua, he blends deep academic grounding with practical systems engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who prefers clean, dependable implementations over flashy shortcuts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteM. E. and B. E., Electronic Engineering, M. E. and B. E., Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (7)
file-storage10
backup10
go10
back-end-development10
cloud-storage10
dropbox9
licensing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gilbertchen/duplicacy
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
A new generation cloud backup tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 649 commits, 111 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Gang primarily contributed to the core functionality of the cloud backup tool, evidenced by the creation and modification of source code related to file storage, backup managers, and chunk handling. They implemented features for the Dropbox access token and the Fair Source License release. The user also demonstrated a knowledge of various storage backends (e.g., Google Drive) and made improvements to handle specific issues.
backup-toolbackupcloud-backup
gilbertchen/go-dropbox
Feb 2016 - Oct 2023
Dropbox v2 client for Go.
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 10 comments in 7 years 9 months
golangdropboxdropbox-v2
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