Shu Chen
Engineering Manager at PAIR
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShu Chen is an engineering manager based in Cambridge with 12 years of experience leading teams that deliver secure, scalable backend systems for healthcare, finance, and cloud platforms. Comfortable both as a hands-on contributor and a leader, Shu has driven technical design, CI/CD and release automation, and real-time data services from feature work through production rollout. Prior roles include senior engineering positions at Genomics, Featurespace and GeoSpock, and contribution to Microsoft projects where they improved authentication libraries and integrated code-analysis tooling. An active open-source contributor, Shu has focused on build/release automation and robustness for widely used projects such as Azure AD and SonarScanner for .NET, bringing practical improvements to packaging, logging and failure handling. Known for blending technical depth with people-first leadership, Shu repeatedly converts complex domain requirements—fraud detection, precision health, petabyte-scale GIS—into maintainable, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of SouthamptonHigh School, High School at Hills Road VI Form College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
nuget10
sonarqube10
msbuild10
pmd10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
cicd10
netframework10
asp-net10
code-analysis10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
maven10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 93 PRs, 164 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shu primarily focused on enhancing the Maven build task, adding and refining PMD code analysis support. Their work involved integrating PMD, addressing code review comments, and incorporating bug fixes. Additionally, the user contributed to SonarQube analysis by adding SonarQube integration into the Gradle task, allowing UI configuration of SonarQube parameters, and improving the overall build process.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
SonarSource/sonar-scanner-msbuild
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
SonarScanner for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 16 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shu primarily focused on improving the SonarScanner for .NET project by modifying error messages and enhancing post-processor failure handling. This involved changes to resource files and bootstrapper code. The user also implemented and refined unit tests, including testing for specific failure scenarios related to post-processing and Roslyn SARIF fixes. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving error handling and ensuring the robustness of the build and analysis process.
dotnetsonarcloudlanguage-teamsonarscannercsharp
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