Summary
William Chern is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building robust, data-driven systems across finance and enterprise domains. Currently at JPMorgan Chase after leading Zuora’s Data Query team, he has hands-on expertise processing millions of asynchronous SQL reads for 200+ global customers using Java, Kafka, Trino/Snowflake, and AWS. His background includes scaling IBM mainframe DFSMS components and introducing CI/CD practices early in his career, reflecting comfort with both legacy and cloud-native stacks. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a UCLA-influenced big data practitioner, he blends strong infrastructure automation (Terraform, Docker) with production monitoring and incident response. Notably, he has moved from web and tooling roles to driving large-scale query platforms, demonstrating a pragmatic shift from front-end/web work to backend distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at San José State University
Chinese, English