He Chen
Software Engineer at LiveKit
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHe Chen is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure, currently working on real-time communication at LiveKit after senior roles at Snowflake and ByteDance. He combines deep systems programming in Go, C++, Python and CUDA with a strong research background—a PhD in Computational Chemistry and a Master's in CS—that informs rigorous, statistics-driven approaches to reliability and performance. At ByteDance he scaled an RTC backend from a two-person team to 30+, owned compliance-critical gateway design, and drove edge decentralization and intelligent scheduling for global traffic. At Bloomberg and Snowflake he delivered high-throughput data pipelines, metrics and notification systems that improved scalability and observability. A meticulous contributor to the well-known "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach" text, he pairs production engineering with continual learning and attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SystemsApproach/book
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach -- Textbook
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:He primarily focused on correcting typos and updating the text within the "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach" textbook. Their commits demonstrate meticulous attention to detail by identifying and fixing errors in various chapters. They also updated existing content, including table links, and formatting inconsistencies within the text. Their work consistently refined the text for better readability and accuracy.
computer-networksdataminingapproachtextbook
miluchen/Data-Compression--Huffman-codes
Aug 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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