Jerry Chen
Senior Principal System Engineer at Raytheon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Chen is a Senior Principal System Engineer in Seattle with over two decades of hands-on expertise across radar, lidar/ladar, integrated photonics and nonlinear optics, now leading radar algorithm and waveform development at Raytheon. He combines deep research roots—PhD from MIT, 24 journal articles, 11 patents and multiple invited talks—with practical prototyping experience from terahertz spectrometers to signal processors, delivering field-ready systems. His career spans foundational R&D at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and industry roles at Tellabs and Bell Labs, bridging theory, simulation and hardware integration. Known for turning complex optical and RF physics into robust prototypes, he also brings uncommon breadth across photonic bandgap devices, optical filters, and beam propagation that informs novel algorithmic approaches.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Certificate in Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Certificate in Engineering Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (31)
google-cloud-platform10
google-cloud-dataproc10
proxy-server10
terraform10
gcp10
ruby10
jupyter-kernels10
google-cloud10
cloud-platform10
golang10
traffic10
nodes10
interoperability9
kubernetes9
jupyterlab9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JerryLeiDing/new-proteomics
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
JerryLeiDing/dataproc-initialization-actions
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
nodeskubernetescustomizeterraformcluster
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