Mike Chen
Assistant Manager at OOCL
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolMike Chen is an Assistant Manager with 13 years of commercial operations experience in global shipping and trade, currently leading Latin America & Africa trade activities from Hong Kong. He progressed through OOCL's rotational trainee program across network control, reefer and trans-Pacific strategic planning, gaining deep operational expertise in vessel utilization, pricing control and service reliability. Trained in Logistics Engineering with international study in Industrial Management, he blends analytical rigor with practical supply chain problem-solving. Beyond shipping, he contributes to open-source software—helping improve Zipkin's Node.js instrumentation by refining sampling and span-join logic and adding unit tests—highlighting a hands-on technical curiosity not typical for his role. He is skilled at translating complex market and operational signals into actionable commercial strategies while maintaining attention to code quality and testability. Colleagues describe him as a data-minded operator who bridges commercial strategy and technical implementation to improve reliability and performance.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Logistics Engineering with Management, Bachelor's degree, Logistics Engineering with Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityInternational Exchange Programme, Industrial Management, International Exchange Programme, Industrial Management at Tampere University of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
distributed-tracing10
unit-testing10
nodejs10
javascript10
trace10
tracer10
zipkin10
testing10
jersey6
java6
logging6
elixir6
ansible6
guice6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openzipkin/zipkin-js
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Zipkin instrumentation for Node.js and browsers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the instrumentation and core logic within the `zipkin-js` library. They implemented changes to the `httpServer` instrumentation to handle missing sampling headers, ensuring the sampler's decision is correctly applied. Refactoring efforts included moving span joining and sampling value calculations into the `tracer.join` method, improving the codebase's organization and testability. The user also added unit tests to validate the functionality of the `tracer.join` method.
instrumentationbrowsersnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
kenspirit/elixirschool
Oct 2018 - May 2022
Premier destination to learn and master the Elixir programming language
Contributions:59 pushes in 3 years 8 months
destinationelixirmasterelixir-programming-languageprogramming-language
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