Shichao An
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShichao An is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and operating distributed, data-intensive systems for companies like Stripe and Uber. He specializes in databases, storage, change data capture, and real-time stream processing—designing and optimizing OLTP workloads and ingestion pipelines with open-source tools such as Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL/Postgres, Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Debezium. Equally fluent in software engineering and site reliability practices, he focuses on scalable, resilient infrastructure that supports high-throughput event-driven applications. Known for mentoring engineers and driving cross-team architecture and roadmaps, he balances innovation with operational rigor. A background that spans SRE roles to senior engineering at major fintech and mobility platforms gives him a practical edge in moving systems from prototype to production-grade reliability.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Science and Technology Beijing
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
moleculea/ess
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 10 days
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