Shane Duan
Director Of Engineering at Rockfish Data
San Ramon, California, United States
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Top SchoolShane Duan is a seasoned engineering leader with 25 years of experience and a 14-year track record in senior engineering management, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Rockfish Data. He has repeatedly built and scaled high-performance cross-functional teams and platforms—driving distributed systems, Kubernetes deployments, and AI-assisted workflows that reduced operational costs by over 50% and processed million-row datasets. At Workday he led core platform services that improved upgrade throughput 100x and cut incident recovery times from hours to minutes through early AI-assisted DevOps ideas. Shane is notable for hiring and mentoring diverse talent into leadership (50% women leaders) and for formalizing program and on-call practices that turned frequent escalations into predictable, measurable operations. With an MS in Computer Science and an MBA from Wharton, he blends deep technical architecture experience with product and business rigor to deliver reliable, scalable enterprise software.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Nanjing UniversityMBA Management, MBA Management at The Wharton School
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wolfdancer/cotta
May 2012 - Mar 2018
A light weight file IO library to ease the use of Java File IO related API and enable the testability.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 11 months
apilight-weightlightfile-iojava
wolfdancer/advent.code
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 issues in 2 years 3 months
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