Li-an Chu
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLi-an Chu is a software development engineer with seven years of experience building search, distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native services at AWS. Based in Seattle, he progressed through multiple engineering roles at CDK Global where internships evolved into full-time positions, contributing to production services using technologies from Cassandra and Caffe to Node.js and Go. At AWS he focuses on scalable backend systems and search infrastructure, combining hands-on coding with practical system design. His academic background in Computer Science and Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences from the University of Washington underpins a data-driven approach to engineering. Notably, his early projects ranged from computer-vision REST services to conversational dealer bots, showing a pattern of turning research-oriented ideas into user-facing products.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences, 3.76, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences, 3.76 at University of Washington
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (59)
meilisearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
visualization10
dashboard10
secondary-index10
relevance10
ppl10
opensearch-dashboards10
analytics10
java10
language-processing10
restful10
sql10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic-analytics/OpenSearch-Dashboards
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Contributions:51 reviews, 38 commits, 33 PRs in 2 months
analyticsdashboardsopensearchdashboardvisualization
noCharger/sql
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:253 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 2 months
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