Victor Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City area with over a decade of engineering experience and 5+ years focused on data-intensive backend and CI/CD systems. At Google he designs and leads infrastructure projects—like BBCP Presubmit and a re-architecture that improved 99th-percentile pipeline latency by hours—while driving cross-team technical direction and mentoring engineers. He combines data engineering chops from LinkedIn and Insight with production-grade backend expertise from Uber and YouTube, consistently reducing cost, latency, and developer toil (including a 50% pipeline efficiency gain and massive sampling reductions). Comfortable spanning system design, SLO-driven reliability, and high-coverage testing, he also brings a background in image processing and signal analysis from early roles, which informs a pragmatic, algorithmic approach to infrastructure problems. He's known for shipping large migrations with zero downtime and for translating complex operational needs into shared, reusable building blocks that scale organization-wide.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Engineering Physics, 3.63, Bachelor of Science (BS), Engineering Physics, 3.63 at University of California, Berkeley
Japanese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (32)
pool9
ants8
goroutine8
worker-pool7
aws6
gcp6
go5
kubernetes5
integrate4
asynchronous-tasks4
golang4
fasthttp4
helm4
high-performance4
k8s4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ulysseses/lshtc4
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 2 months
ulysseses/md_notes
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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