Shouwei Chen
Software Engineer at Alluxio, Inc.
Summary
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RockstarShouwei Chen is a software engineer with seven years of experience specializing in backend development and DevOps for data orchestration systems. He has contributed to the high-profile Alluxio project, improving catalog integration by adding a Glue UDB and enhancing client IO benchmarking with agent reporting, profiling, and API-count graphing. His work on partition-fetch fixes and proxy support demonstrates a focus on stability, performance, and operational flexibility in distributed systems. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he brings practical expertise in profiling-driven optimization and production-ready tooling. Based in the United States, he combines open-source collaboration with hands-on engineering to deliver measurable improvements in large-scale data platforms.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
alluxio10
java10
performance-testing10
javas10
orchestrate10
orchestration-framework10
aws-glue10
orchestration10
back-end-development9
devops9
data-analysis9
backend9
distributed-file-system8
hadoop8
virtual-file-system8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Alluxio/alluxio
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:189 reviews, 72 commits, 77 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shouwei's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Alluxio project's backend and related infrastructure. They introduced a Glue UDB (Under Database) to the Catalog Service, improving data orchestration capabilities. They also added agent reporting functionality and profile agent integration within the ClientIOBench stress test, and added a graph for API counts within the client-IO stress test, focusing on profiling and performance analysis. Further, they implemented fixes for partition fetching within the Glue UDB and added proxy support, which increased stability, efficiency, and flexibility of the project.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
HelloHorizon/alluxio
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Contributions:4 PRs, 186 pushes, 93 branches in 2 years 10 months
analyticsdata-analysisorchestrationdata-sciencebigquery
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