Yuhong Chen
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuhong Chen is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building data infrastructure at Databricks in Mountain View. At Databricks she progressed from intern to full-time engineer, contributing to backend systems and improving reliability and query performance. Her open-source work on the widely used delta-sharing protocol includes fixes to Python clients, adding retry with exponential backoff, and implementing limit pushdown for Spark—practical improvements that reduce errors and speed queries. Colleagues know her for thoughtful bug fixes that handle edge cases (empty tables, complex types) as well as cleaning up protocol inconsistencies. She combines production-focused engineering with an attention to data correctness that benefits both internal services and the broader data-sharing ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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737reached
10answers
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Github Skills (13)
data-sharing10
delta-lake10
python10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
pandas9
spark9
api-rest9
beautifulsoup6
jupyter-notebook6
dictionary6
slice6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
delta-io/delta-sharing
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
An open protocol for secure data sharing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yuhong made several contributions related to the Delta Sharing protocol and Python connector. They fixed a typo in the `ListSharesResponse`, addressed issues with empty tables and complex data types in the `load_as_pandas` function, and removed an extra slash from an endpoint. Additionally, the user added retry logic with exponential backoff for the Python client and implemented limit pushdown for Spark queries. These contributions focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the Python client and the sharing protocol.
secureopen-protocolsharingbig-dataspark
FX196/Coding-Practice
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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