Steven Chu
Software Engineer at OptalX
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Chu is a software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building backend systems, analytical pipelines, and transactional data stores using Python, Go, Java, and Rust. He combines a Master’s in Analytics and Machine Learning with hands-on production work at companies like Yelp, Facebook, Block, and OptalX, driving improvements in engagement, revenue, and ETL efficiency. His expertise spans distributed data processing (Spark, pandas), cloud data architectures (S3, Redshift), and OLTP/NoSQL systems (MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB). An active open-source contributor, he implemented timezone-aware timestamp support for SQLite in the popular Diesel ORM, demonstrating attention to correctness across language and DB boundaries. Formerly a math teacher, he brings clear communication and pedagogy to complex engineering problems and a penchant for digging deep into tricky data issues.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Analytics at University of San FranciscoBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; English Literature, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; English Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English
Stackoverflow
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2answers
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Github Skills (14)
chrono10
chronos10
rust10
sqlite10
orm10
query-builder9
sql8
json6
hibernate6
weighted6
python6
ranking6
mysql6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
diesel-rs/diesel
Mar 2022 - May 2022
A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to implementing timestamp with timezone support for SQLite within the Diesel ORM. They modified the `chrono.rs` file to handle date and time conversions, and made changes to other files to accommodate the new type. These changes included adding the new type to the sql_types module and the sqlite module. They also added and modified tests to verify the correct encoding and decoding of timestamps.
querymysqlrustsqlbuilder
chusteven/coding-interview-prep
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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