Pishen Tsai
Staff Engineer at Trend Micro
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolPishen Tsai is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in Scala-powered big data and cloud-native backends, currently working at Trend Micro in New Taipei. He has led architecture and implementation of data platforms and cloud workflows—rewriting Cromwell backends for multi-cloud Spark-on-Kubernetes deployments and building Scio-driven pipelines and geodata vector-tiling at scale. Pishen combines strong engineering craftsmanship (sbt plugins, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, type-safe datastore wrappers) with practical product impact, such as a drama recommender that increased weekly watch time by 1.5 hours. He has a track record of introducing Scala/Spark across teams, creating developer tooling (spark-deployer, lsh4s/annoy4s) and mentoring engineers to shorten ramp-up time. Comfortable across backend APIs, streaming jobs and frontend glue like Scala.js, he brings both systems-thinking and hands-on coding to complex data problems. Colleagues know him by a playful “Scala virus carrier” moniker that hints at his contagious enthusiasm for the Scala ecosystem.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
annoy10
compile-time10
dataflow10
python10
linq10
google-cloud10
chartjs-plugin10
streaming10
scanner10
r10
google-cloud-datastore10
scale10
sql10
batch10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pishen/resume
Apr 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:54 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 3 months
pishen/sbt-lighter
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
SBT plugin for Apache Spark on AWS EMR
Contributions:7 releases, 102 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
emrapachesbt-pluginsparkscala
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