Tianyi Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianyi Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building platform-scale systems at Snowflake in Kirkland, Washington. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Snowflake since 2018, delivering backend reliability, authentication, and configuration improvements for production data drivers. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the Go Snowflake driver—adding JWT auth, configurable timeouts, logging refinements, and authentication unit tests—demonstrating attention to secure, testable integrations. His background includes systems research on in-memory databases at CMU and advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and UIUC, giving him strong foundations in concurrent systems and performance profiling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who combines low-level C++/Go expertise with product-minded platform design. He often surfaces subtle reliability fixes (e.g., timestamp and DSN handling) that prevent widespread production incidents.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
snowflake10
jwt10
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
snowflakedb/gosnowflake
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Go Snowflake Driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 72 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tianyi primarily focused on enhancing the Go Snowflake Driver, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. Their work involved integrating with and updating the logging functionality, including modifications to the glog library and timestamp handling. Furthermore, they were responsible for adding unit tests for authentication, and the ability for users to configure timeout parameters. The user also refactored the code to support JWT authentication and enhanced the DSN configurations.
golangsnowflakesqldatabase
ChTimTsubasa/peloton
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Contributions:1 PR, 81 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year
management-systemdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabasedatabase-management
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