Shengjian Chen
Software Engineer at TikTok
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolShengjian Chen is a software engineer based in San Jose with nine years of hands-on experience spanning distributed systems, computer graphics, and cloud DevOps. A recent MS graduate from Carnegie Mellon, he has blended academic research with production internships, contributing to distributed runtimes, MQTT-based edge-cloud pub-sub modules, and on-vehicle monitoring pipelines that cut shutdown processing time by 90%. He has shipped backend systems and automated Kubernetes/EKS deployments using GitHub Actions, and improved operational algorithms in industrial inventory software to reduce wait times by 40%. At WeRide and in university labs he applied hierarchical recording and modularization strategies to reduce I/O duplication and scale edge deployments. Now at TikTok, he continues to bridge research-grade frameworks and production engineering, bringing both algorithmic optimization and pragmatic deployment experience. Colleagues can expect a creative problem-solver who moves seamlessly between low-level protocol work and cloud-native automation.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineer, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineer at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS Electrical & Computer Enginnering, Master of Science - MS Electrical & Computer Enginnering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineer, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineer at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (26)
grasp8
robotics7
voting7
ros6
robot6
navigation26
rviz5
visualizer5
gazebosim5
pcl4
rosbag4
golang4
object-detection4
point-cloud4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tony23545/bulldog_ws
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
bulldog worksapce
Contributions:19 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
golang
tony23545/navigation2_dynamic
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Navigation2's dynamic obstacle detection, tracking, and processing pipelines.
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
tracking-detectiontrackingnavigation2obstacle-detectionpipelines
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