Laura Chen
Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
California, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Chen is a software engineering leader with six years in management and a deep history in database systems, currently managing engineering teams at LinkedIn from California. Her career blends hands-on kernel and storage work—spanning DB2 at IBM and hardware-accelerated, cloud-native MPP database designs at Futurewei—with recent leadership as a Staff Engineer and now manager at LinkedIn. She excels at turning complex transactional and analytical requirements into scalable architectures, particularly HTAP and share-nothing MPP storage/execution engines. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, she combines rigorous research background with practical delivery across large enterprise products. Colleagues describe her as a technical mentor who bridges low-level performance optimization and high-level product strategy.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (42)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
delta-lake10
prestodb10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
big-data10
data-analytics10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
indexing10
jdbc10
analytics10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
laurachenyu/presto
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Official home of the community managed version of Presto, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, under the auspices of the Presto Software Foundation.
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
queryquery-enginesqlbig-dataspark
laurachenyu/linkedin-calcite
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
LinkedIn's version of Apache Calcite
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
apache-calciteapachelinkedinjavacalcite
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