Young Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Motion
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoung Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building hyperscale analytics and distributed systems, including contributions to Hadoop YARN and Azure Data Lake Analytics. He has driven cloud-scale compute work at Microsoft and AWS and now focuses on high-throughput analytics at Motion after a senior engineering stint at Canopy. Polyglot in Java, Kotlin, Go, Swift and Haskell, he pairs systems-level expertise with pragmatic API and SDK work—evidenced by contributions to a popular Go SDK for Alibaba Cloud where he implemented RAM/STS features and unit tests. Comfortable across backend, cloud, and data-plane concerns, he bridges low-level distributed runtime challenges and higher-level developer ergonomics. Colleagues rely on him for reliable, test-driven solutions that scale to petabyte-class workloads. He brings a maker’s curiosity—often exploring functional languages like Haskell alongside production Java and Go.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering, Sophomore, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering, Sophomore at University of Michigan College of Engineering
chinese, mandarin
Github Skills (10)
go10
sdk10
sts10
alioss10
security10
testing9
apidoc9
go-testing9
api9
github7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
denverdino/aliyungo
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Go SDK for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud) - Golang API for ECS, OSS, DNS, SLB, RDS, RAM, MNS, STS, SLS, MQ, Push, OpenSearch, DM, Container Service etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Young primarily contributed to the Go SDK for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud) by implementing and improving the RAM (Resource Access Management) and STS (Security Token Service) functionalities. Their commits include adding support for roles, policies, and their interactions, such as attaching and detaching policies. The user also implemented unit tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of the added features.
pushalibabastsservice-containeraliyun
chainone/xunlei-lixian
Nov 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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