Ting Chen
Co-Founder & CEO at Xplorify Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolTing Chen is a Software Engineer with 11 years of experience based in Palo Alto, currently working at Uber and focused on backend systems. She contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Helix and Apache Pinot, improving monitoring flexibility and making real-time segment uploads and peer-to-peer downloads more robust and efficient. Ting’s work emphasizes reliability and operability—adding configurability, retry logic, access controls, and unit tests to production-grade distributed systems. She blends pragmatic engineering with attention to observability, enabling safer deployments and easier troubleshooting at scale. An understated strength is her knack for incremental, well-tested improvements that reduce operational friction across complex data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science Image Analysis, Bachelor Computer Science Image Analysis at University of Science and Technology of ChinaPhD Computer Science Computer Vision Machine Learning, PhD Computer Science Computer Vision Machine Learning at University of Florida
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
apache-pinot10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
big-data10
java10
javas10
api10
backend10
helix10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
api-rest9
zookeeper9
rest-api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 345 reviews, 37 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ting primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Pinot controller and server functionalities, particularly related to Real-time segment uploads and the peer-to-peer download scheme. They implemented a new segment uploader with bounded upload time and default segment location, refined the controller's segment download API for non-local file systems, and added access controls for the segment download API. The user also refactored code to improve the efficiency and robustness of segment uploads and downloads by optimizing LLC segment metadata upload and adding retry logic for peer segment discovery and download.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
apache/helix
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Mirror of Apache Helix
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Ting primarily focused on improving the monitoring aspects of the Apache Helix project. Their commits involved making the reservoir sliding window length configurable for various monitoring metrics. This includes modifications across multiple Java files to use system properties for determining the window length, thus enabling more flexible control over the monitoring data. The user also added unit tests and fixed typos in existing code.
helixapachebig-datacloudjava
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