Jerry Chen
Principal Software Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Chen is a Principal Software Engineer in Palo Alto with seven years of post-graduate industry experience and a deep track record building large-scale distributed systems at Meta. He led the creation of high-performance stream processing platforms (Stylus, Turbine) and core storage improvements (HBase, HDFS) that power analytics, messaging, and real-time pipelines across Facebook, Instagram, and other products. Since 2019 he’s focused on PyTorch and ML infrastructure, driving a complete training and inference stack on new hardware that scaled models and delivered measurable product wins for Ads and Feeds. Known for marrying systems engineering with product impact, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-team leadership—previously managing HBase/HDFS efforts and later serving as technical lead for personalization atop PyTorch. Educated at Peking University and the University of Minnesota (MSEE), he brings both rigorous academic grounding and a history of influencing large open systems that operate at internet scale.
7 years of coding experience
BS, BS at Peking UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Github Skills (11)
neural-network10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
tensor10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu-acceleration10
gpu10
python10
numpy10
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Github contributions (3)
gqchen/pytorch
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:50 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
NaJaeMin92/pytorch
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 2 months
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