Phoenix Chu
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhoenix Chu is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 17 years of experience building distributed, data-intensive systems for startups and scale-ups in the Bay Area. He has led and scaled microservice architectures using Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails and Elixir, and drove platform-level engineering as a Staff Engineer at Coinbase. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and technical leader, he has experience from early-stage stealth startups to production at high-growth companies, and a history of introducing pragmatic engineering practices and migrations. His background includes deep backend work dating back to ThoughtWorks and Xi'an Jiaotong University where he led middleware and messaging projects, revealing a long-standing interest in real-time and integration systems. Based in Redwood City, Phoenix combines systems-level thinking with practical delivery, often tackling the hard plumbing that makes products reliable at scale. An appetite for cross-stack problems and a track record of shipping resilient services set him apart from pure specialist engineers.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
ruby, objective-c, java, javascript
Github Skills (7)
tracer4
mysql2
database2
ruby2
postgresql2
sql2
zipkin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixtoday/spark-sharing-file-system
Nov 2008 - Feb 2009
Contributions:21 commits in 2 months
phoenixtoday/tweet_search
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 13 days
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