Kiv Chen
SDE Intern,Streaming Infra at Metabit Trading 乾象投资
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKiv Chen is a systems-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building and hardening streaming and storage infrastructure, currently an SDE Intern on Streaming Infra at Metabit Trading and previously contributing to RisingWave Labs' stream processing platform. He has a strong track record of backend refactors and performance-minded work—removing async_trait across exchange and storage components, improving batch processing and connector sinks in a production-grade, open-source stream engine. His internships at ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, PingCAP and The Linux Foundation reflect hands-on experience with large-scale migration tooling, database tuning, chaos-engineering, and decentralized governance on Hyperledger Fabric. Based in Mountain View and pursuing advanced software engineering studies at Carnegie Mellon, he combines rigorous academic training with practical open-source impact. Beyond code, Kiv describes himself as a lifelong storyteller, a perspective that surfaces in careful system design and clear test utilities. He thrives on plumbing the low-level paths that direct trillions of bytes to the right place, often by quietly breaking and rebuilding complex systems for greater reliability.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at University of LiverpoolBachelor of Science - BSc, Information and Computing Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Information and Computing Science at 西交利物浦大学Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
stream-processing10
rust10
batch-processing10
data-engineering10
database9
postgresql9
kafka9
async-await9
databases9
testing8
grpc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
risingwavelabs/risingwave
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Stream processing platform for developers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 52 commits, 15 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kiv's primary contribution involved refactoring the batch processing components, specifically removing `async_trait` from `ExchangeSource` and related implementations. They addressed code related to `GenericExchangeExecutor`, `ExchangeSourceImpl`, `GrpcExchangeSource`, and `LocalExchangeSource`, demonstrating a focus on optimizing data exchange within the stream processing framework. This included modifications to test utilities, indicating a commitment to code quality and maintainability. Further contributions involved removing `async_trait` in the storage layer and adding several features related to connector sink.
data-streamserverlessstreamdistributed-sql-databasedatabase
KivenChen/KLego
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:78 commits, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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