Tianyu Chen
Software Engineer at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTianyu Chen is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, scalable back-end systems and databases, currently at Databricks in Amsterdam. He has a strong track record at major cloud and travel platforms including AWS and Booking.com, and holds MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University. Tianyu contributes to prominent open-source projects like CockroachDB, where he implemented SQL enhancements and bug fixes that improve bitwise operations and schema reporting—work that reflects deep familiarity with distributed SQL internals. Comfortable across DevOps and backend roles, he blends production-grade engineering with practical tooling improvements and a knack for clarifying complex data behaviors.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue University
English, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (12)
databases10
go10
distributed-database10
sql10
relational-databases10
cockroachdb10
sql-database10
database10
bitwise9
bit9
caching8
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tianyu contributed to the CockroachDB project by implementing and extending SQL functionality. They added new built-in functions for bitwise operations on variable-length bit arrays, enhancing the database's capabilities. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to sequence reporting in the information schema, improving the accuracy of data type descriptions. Further contributions included fixing a bug in the test utility `ExpectErrWithTimeout` and making the SQL cache map generic.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
cty123/TrojanRust
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Trojan-rust is a rust implementation for Trojan protocol that is targeted to circumvent GFW. This implementation focus on performance and stability above everything else.
Contributions:71 commits, 1 PR, 149 pushes in 1 year 2 months
everythingrustgfwperformancestability
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