Xiao Chen
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, large-scale data platforms and real-time processing systems, currently driving observability, orchestration, and auto-remediation at Netflix. A long-time Apache Hadoop committer and PMC member, Xiao has contributed impactful HDFS enhancements—improving storage handling, security token processing, and core stability—demonstrating deep expertise in distributed storage internals. Prior roles at Cloudera and Thomson Reuters underscore a strong background in big data infrastructure and production-grade backend systems. Based in Los Gatos, Xiao blends open-source stewardship with hands-on engineering to turn complex data challenges into resilient, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Master of Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Beihang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
security10
data-storage10
javas10
file-management10
hdfs10
java10
apache-hadoop10
filesystem9
blocks9
manage9
user-authentication8
authentication8
erasure7
encoding7
coding7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hadoop
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:371 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Xiao contributed to the Apache Hadoop project by implementing and testing enhancements related to data storage, file management, and security features. They worked on improving DataNode hot swap drive handling by restricting storage type changes, enhancing DFSClient's mkdirs method and supporting the processing of KMS delegation tokens. The user also made code changes to improve logging and address potential vulnerabilities, indicating a focus on improving the core functionality and stability of the Hadoop ecosystem.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
xiao-chen/hadoop
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 2 months
apachebig-datahadoopjavaapache-hadoop
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