Kang Chen
Director Of Engineering, Learner Experience at Coursera
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKang Chen is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-throughput web infrastructure, now serving as Director of Engineering for Learner Experience at Coursera. He led critical syndication and off-platform products at Twitter that reached billions of daily impressions and engineered services peaking at 10M+ requests/min while maintaining 99.99%+ SLAs. A UC Berkeley CS & Economics graduate with an MS in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, Kang blends deep backend, systems and architecture expertise (Scala, Ruby, distributed systems, Cassandra, Mesos) with hands-on product delivery. He has a track record of turning legacy monoliths into resilient, multi-DC platforms and shipping novel SDKs and monetization paths for embedded experiences. Known for mentoring teams, driving CI/CD and reliability improvements, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with a knack for delivering features users “can’t imagine living without.”
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science Economics, B.A. Computer Science Economics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (12)
deep-linking3
router2
scala2
scalajs2
playframework2
json1
jackson1
nodejs1
signing1
json-simple1
java1
scheduler1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kimyoutora/RouterKit
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 20 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
deep-linkinglinkingroutingrouternavigation
kimyoutora/CMU-SV-Web-Perf-Lab-Minato
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:51 commits in 25 days
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