Shin-yu Chen
Software Engineer at Rewriting the Code
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShin-yu Chen is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with six years of experience focused on backend systems, infrastructure, and machine learning. Currently on the Spark query processing team at AWS, she previously strengthened Redshift's data plane by improving VACUUM and cluster resize/restore operations. Her Ph.D.-level research background at Georgia Tech informs a data-driven approach to problem solving—she has authored work accepted to Nature Communications integrating single-cell datasets. Comfortable across big data pipelines and production systems, she blends rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering. Active in community initiatives like Rewriting the Code and experienced in early-stage product work, she brings curiosity, proactivity, and strong time management to complex distributed systems. Also, she’s a 100% cat person, which surfaces in her collaborative, detail-oriented style.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Tianjin University
Github Skills (12)
masters10
computer-science10
application10
open-source8
algebra5
protobuf5
hexo5
golang4
linear-algebra4
responsive4
microservices3
vscode-extension3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cindyuc/Summer2023-Internships
Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
Collection of Summer 2023 tech internships!
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 months
internshipssummer
cindyuc/Deep-Learning_Coursera
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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