Hao Chen
Founder at MegaEase
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Chen is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years building large-scale, high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure, now leading MegaEase from Beijing. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C/C++, Java, Go, and system/network engineering with product sensibility—delivering global e-commerce platform features, autoscaling resource schedulers, and mission-critical low-latency services. At Alibaba and Amazon he architected and operated cloud and forecasting platforms for thousands of applications and VMs, and at Thomson Reuters drove dramatic performance improvements in real-time distribution systems. Hao favors small, empowered teams that own end-to-end delivery and is pragmatic about operations, incident management, and customer escalations. He is an active open-source maintainer and contributor (notably to the cloud-native Easegress project and lightweight health checker Easeprobe), emphasizing code quality, maintainability and tooling like WASM builds. Fluent in both engineering execution and cross-team stakeholder management, he blends deep technical craft with entrepreneurial drive.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Yunnan University
Github Skills (53)
url-routing10
json10
algorithms10
c-language10
golangci-lint10
back-end-development10
vpn10
scripting10
email-notifications10
bash10
openvpn10
networking10
data-structure10
script10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
megaease/easeprobe
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A simple, standalone, and lightweight tool that can do health/status checking, written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:280 reviews, 172 commits, 312 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hao primarily contributed to adding and improving email notification features within the project. This included modifications to data structures, implementing new functionalities, and supporting multiple email servers. Additionally, the user made general improvements to the code, such as updating dependencies, fixing typos and implementing the new feature about slack support.
golangprobesecurityhealthstatus
haoel/haoel.github.io
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:11 reviews, 110 commits, 47 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hao's primary contributions focus on system administration and network configuration. They created a script (`route.sh`) to manage routing tables, likely for VPN traffic. They also worked on configuring dynamic DNS settings and modifying the `dnsmasq.conf` file. Furthermore, the user wrote a script to install a suite of proxy tools. These actions indicate a focus on networking, system configuration, and potentially circumventing internet censorship.
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