Ken Chen
Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Timeplus
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Chen is a seasoned distributed systems architect and founder with 13 years of experience building high-performance cloud, streaming, and distributed database platforms. As Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Timeplus, he leads core product design around native streaming processing and scalable storage, drawing on prior principal roles at Splunk and AWS where he handled data collection, DPDK/XDP packet processing, and EBS control-plane orchestration. He has deep low-level systems expertise from early work on EMC storage software and SQL/Greenplum solutions, and pairs that with production-focused engineering across cloud and SaaS environments. An active open-source contributor, Ken enhanced the popular go-swagger CLI to improve YAML/JSON spec handling and added unit tests that strengthened code-generator reliability. Based in San Francisco with an academic grounding in computer architecture, he blends systems research rigor with a founder’s product instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges kernel-level performance work and high-level distributed system design.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Architecture, Master's degree Computer Architecture at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (10)
golang10
swagger-codegen10
swagger10
go10
api10
swagger-docs10
yaml9
code-generator9
json8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
go-swagger/go-swagger
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Swagger 2.0 implementation for go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the `go-swagger/go-swagger` project by enhancing the command-line tool's functionality. They implemented support for YAML output files, refactored code for consistency, and fixed code formatting issues. Additionally, the user added unit tests to validate the JSON and YAML marshaling of the specification, enhancing the reliability of the code generator.
golangapiswagger-2code-generatorswagger-codegen
timeplus-io/proton
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
High-performance, low-footprint SQL database written in C++. Process millions of rows per second from Kafka/Pulsar, Iceberg, or ClickHouse, and seamlessly write results back. Supports powerful features like JOIN, CDC, UPSERT, and LOOKUP, enabling real-time analytics and ETL at scale.
Contributions:1 release, 662 reviews, 96 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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