Mulong Chen
Software Engineer at EDB
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolMulong Chen is a pragmatic software architect and engineering manager with 14+ years building and shipping systems from embedded firmware to distributed databases. He excels at Linux and low-level debugging, has deep experience with mobile databases (notably substantive backend contributions to the widely used Realm projects), and has led teams adapting Postgres/Greenplum extensions and operators at VMware/Broadcom. Comfortable hands-on in C/C++ and many higher-level languages, he pairs strong system design with toolchain and CI improvements that speed delivery. Known for empathetic technical leadership, he routinely bridges product, QA and customers while mentoring engineers. A longtime VI user who dislikes global state and bad indentation, he brings curiosity and a talent for simplifying complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Electro-Optics Engineering & Optical Communication, Bachelor of Electro-Optics Engineering & Optical Communication at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (36)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
ui-components10
databases10
android-recyclerview10
java10
listview10
portable-database10
javas10
realm10
mobile-web10
android10
database-design10
cryptography10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
realm/realm-java
May 2015 - Jan 2018
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:973 commits, 995 PRs, 1632 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mulong primarily worked on the backend of the Realm Java library, focusing on improvements to the core database functionalities. Their contributions include removing unused mixed types and implementing various enhancements. They also refactored internal classes and added performance improvements to the codebase. Additionally, the user fixed a number of bugs to improve stability.
ormsreact-nativenosql-databasemobile-databaseandroid
realm/realm-android-adapters
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Adapters for combining Realm Java with Android UI components and framework classes
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 42 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mulong primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Realm adapters library for Android. Their commits focused on updating the core adapter functionality, including `RealmBaseAdapter` and `RealmRecyclerViewAdapter`, addressing issues and improving performance. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of integrating Realm with Android UI components like `RecyclerView` and `ListView` as demonstrated in the provided examples. They also integrated functionalities such as swipe-to-delete feature and enhanced overall usability of the library.
android-uiandroidadapterskotlinrealm-java
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