Min Chen
Full-time at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMin Chen is a Principal Staff Software Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and over two decades of experience modernizing large-scale cloud and service architectures. At LinkedIn he has driven a decade-long modernization of the service stack—spearheading adoption of gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and GraphQL—while shaping long-term architectural roadmaps that reduce tech debt and improve developer productivity. He combines hands-on expertise in distributed systems, REST APIs, virtualization and cloud orchestration from prior roles at Citrix, Oracle and IBM with practical open-source experience contributing to Apache CloudStack’s storage and engine components. Min is also an early adopter of AI-assisted automation for large migrations and has helped enable cross-company API integrations between LinkedIn and Microsoft. Based in the Bay Area, he mentors engineers and builds foundational platform tools that turn research-grade ideas into reliable, production-scale infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Peking University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
apache-cloudstack10
back-end-development10
java10
file-storage9
data-storage9
unit-testing9
storage9
nfs8
kvm6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:295 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Min's contributions focused on fixing unit tests related to the NFS template download flow, indicating a focus on storage-related functionalities. Their work also involved refactoring code and making changes to the core and engine components of the CloudStack project, suggesting involvement in back-end development. The user demonstrated a deep understanding of the architecture by addressing issues and making improvements.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
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