Qi Chen
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQi Chen is a Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems, observability tooling, and data ingestion pipelines, currently leading backend prototyping for an agentic AI customer service platform at Amazon. Trained as a physicist with a Ph.D. in condensed matter and an M.S. in statistics from UT Austin, Qi blends strong quantitative modeling with hands-on engineering across Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript. They have a track record at AWS contributing to OpenSearch Data Prepper—migrating Elasticsearch dependencies and improving performance—and prior experience developing scientific simulation and data services at Enthought. Comfortable with distributed systems, Docker, CI/CD and cloud-native operations, Qi also mentors junior engineers and drives process optimization. Notably, their background in scientific computing and statistics informs a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to building reliable, observable backend platforms.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Statistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Statistics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Tongji University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
opensearch10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/data-prepper
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenSearch Data Prepper is a component of the OpenSearch project that accepts, filters, transforms, enriches, and routes data at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:977 reviews, 99 commits, 347 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Qi's contributions centered around migrating dependencies related to Elasticsearch to OpenSearch within the OpenSearch Data Prepper project. They updated Java code within multiple files to reflect the dependency changes, including modifications in the Elasticsearch sink and related tests. Furthermore, the user made modifications that improved the performance or resolved an issue related to the underlying functionality.
tracesanalyticsprepperfiltersobservability
chenqi0805/data-prepper
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 430 pushes in 4 years
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