Ruxin Shen
Software Engineer Data Engineer
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuxin Shen is a software and data engineer with eight years of experience building production data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and automation tools across companies like Snap and Chartbeat. Currently pursuing an MS in Data Science at Columbia, Ruxin blends strong algorithmic and statistical training with hands-on work in Python, Scala, and Rust to deliver scalable ETL, analytics, and ML-driven features. Notable projects include redesigning metadata pipelines with Kinesis/Kafka, an automated Stripe payment integration tied into Django/Salesforce/Mixpanel, and prototyping infra with Terraform for Redshift/RDS and CDN/DNS automation. He has driven exploratory NLP and image-analysis efforts during hack weeks and built recommendation and clustering proofs-of-concept using Spark collaborative filtering. Based in Santa Monica but with roots in Berlin and Arizona, Ruxin brings a cross-cultural, product-oriented mindset that pairs data science curiosity with pragmatic engineering.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chino Hills High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (4)
plotter8
plot6
mdbook4
visualization4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheRincon/gc_plotter
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Plotting GC content on ideograms
Contributions:45 commits, 7 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 10 months
plotplottermdbookplottingvisualization
TheRincon/rexsearch
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Port of vsearch into Rust
Contributions:8 PRs, 61 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
rustpyo3meilisearch
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