Tianyu Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianyu Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building core ML and LLM infrastructure at Google from Sunnyvale. He holds a Master’s from Carnegie Mellon and a top-ranked Mechanical Engineering bachelor’s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a background that informs his systems-first approach to complex engineering problems. At Google he has progressed through multiple engineering levels and contributed to Google Health and clinician-facing infrastructure as well as high-throughput ML serving platforms. Tianyu is also an active open-source contributor—his work on GoogleCloudPlatform/esp-v2 improved API key extraction and request filtering within the Envoy-based service proxy used widely for API management. He combines production-grade backend engineering with research-facing experience from CMU, making him comfortable bridging prototype ML work and scalable production systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and adept at translating academic rigor into reliable, real-world services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.81/4.00, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.81/4.00 at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8/4.0 (Rank: 3/102), Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8/4.0 (Rank: 3/102) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (10)
proxy10
go10
api10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
apidoc10
pattern-matching9
c-language8
google-cloud8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/esp-v2
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
A service proxy that provides API management capabilities using Google Service Infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tianyu contributed to the `googlecloudplatform/esp-v2` repository, a service proxy for API management using Google Service Infrastructure. Their work involved implementing features related to API key handling and pattern matching for request filtering within the Envoy proxy. They added support for extracting API keys from query parameters, headers, and cookies. The user also modified code to include the API name and version in Chemist report requests.
api-gatewayapigolangcppproxy
TerryC78/Footstep-Planning-of-Walking-Robots-Project
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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