Yuan Chen
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuan Chen is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive systems for finance and tech. At Barclays he combines Spark/Scala and Kubernetes expertise to deliver production VaR pipelines and a Spark Aggregator that cut Cloudera costs by 80% while improving data accessibility for market risk analysts and traders. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Rice and a BS from Virginia Tech, and has internship experience at AWS where he built tooling for specification and comment validation across Markdown, RFC and TOML formats. Yuan is equally comfortable shipping frontend visualizations in Angular/TypeScript and architecting backend ETL and orchestration, reflecting a full-stack pragmatism tuned for low-latency trading workflows. He brings a track record of squeezing operational cost and complexity out of large data platforms, and a persistent focus on making complex risk data actionable for front-office users.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4.0 at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.53/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.53/4.0 at Virginia Tech
Chinese, English, Shanghainese
Github Skills (173)
python10
metadata10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
spotify10
firebase10
auth10
markdown10
data-engineering10
dataops10
kubernetes-operator10
parking10
scheduler10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chenyuan99/Techstaff-Inventory
May 2021 - Mar 2024
A CS4704 Project
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
djangoerpinventory-management-systemvirginia-tech
chenyuan99/offerplus
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
An Agentic Offer seaker poweredd by DeepSeek
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 45 PRs in 11 months
build-in-publiccomp631gptofferplusriceuniversity
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