Summary
Ming Chan is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-performance, revenue-critical data and cloud platforms. Currently leading Search Query Execution for Splunk's cloud data platform, he focuses on performance, reliability, scalability and usability for enterprise search at massive scale. His background spans distributed systems, big data, ETL, and IoT edge computing from senior leadership roles at AWS (ElasticViews, Greengrass) to platform and RDMA networking at NetApp. Ming blends deep systems-level expertise (C++, kernel and RDMA stacks) with cloud-native architectures and product-driven delivery, having led global teams across startups and large enterprises. He holds a BE and MS in Electrical Engineering and is known for translating low-level performance optimizations into customer-visible improvements in large distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electrical Engineering, BE Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Columbia University