Rico Chiu
Software Engineer at Alluxio, Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRico Chiu is a software engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building and maintaining reliable cloud-native systems. Since 2016 he has been at Alluxio, contributing to data orchestration tooling where he blends engineering with DevOps and technical writing to improve builds, deployments, and documentation. His contributions include tightening PR build workflows, adding license and doc checks, and fixing versioning and link issues—work that helps keep a widely used open-source project production-ready. Trained in applied physics and electrical engineering at Caltech, he brings a strong analytical foundation to systems design and automation. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented and pragmatic, often tackling the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that prevents outages and streamlines developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Applied Physics, BS, Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
github-ci10
bash10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
cicd10
documentation10
jekyll9
orchestrate4
orchestration4
orchestration-framework4
data-analysis4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Alluxio/alluxio
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:4 releases, 886 reviews, 166 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rico contributed to the Alluxio documentation and made several improvements to the build and deployment scripts. They fixed broken links, added a documentation check, and updated version strings in the README. The user also modified the build process to improve PR builds by inspecting PR diffs and added a license check to all PR builds.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
Xenorith/alluxio
May 2016 - Nov 2024
Alluxio, formerly Tachyon, Memory-Speed Virtual Distributed Storage System
Contributions:1 PR, 204 pushes, 334 branches in 8 years 8 months
memoryspeeddistributed-storagestatefulmemory-speed
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