Hector Chu
Data Engineer II
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHector Chu is a Data Engineer II based in San Francisco with 17 years of professional experience and a unique blend of pharmaceutical chemistry, web development, and hands-on clinical experience in physical therapy. He builds reliable data pipelines and automation—recently leading eligibility ingestion at Hinge Health and migrating Databricks/Prophecy platforms at Workday—while championing CI/CD, refactoring, and reusable engineering practices. Hector’s background in patient care informs his passion for healthcare technology and drives practical solutions that improve access and operational efficiency. Trained at UC Davis and Rithm School, he combines domain knowledge, full-stack skills, and a penchant for reducing manual work (e.g., slashing DDL generation time from an hour to five minutes).
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California, DavisComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Rithm School
Chinese
Github Skills (168)
lightning-network10
post-quantum10
payment-gateway10
ganache10
cryptocurrency10
crowdfunding10
crypto10
payment10
bitcoin10
nano10
truffle10
adyen10
ethereum10
blockchain10
litecoin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EthFS/ethfs
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Unix-like filesystem for Ethereum
Contributions:196 commits, 34 pushes in 2 years
ethereumunixfilesystemunix-like
ltcmweb/ltcd
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
An alternative full node litecoin implementation written in golang
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch, 37 tags in 1 year 2 months
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