Norman Chen
Software Engineer Intern at Optiver
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNorman Chen is a University of Waterloo computer science student and software engineer with three years of hands-on experience building distributed systems and performance-focused features across top-tier companies. He has interned at Databricks working on Photon, Meta on autoscaling, Cockroach Labs on SQL query work, and Shopify on distributed coordination—demonstrating a consistent focus on scalable, low-latency infrastructure. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines strong academic foundations with practical contributions to storage, query engines, and orchestration problems. Norman’s resume shows a pattern of tackling systems-level challenges early in his career, signaling readiness to own complex backend problems in production environments.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (15)
go10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql10
cockroachdb10
sql-database10
high-availability10
database10
data-migration7
macos1
typescript1
godot1
javascript1
clipboard-manager1
cli1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
normanchenn/cockroach
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Contributions:369 pushes, 65 branches in 3 months
cloud-nativecockroachdbhigh-availabilitysql-database
normanchenn/normanchenn
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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