Zach Chen
Software Development Manager at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Chen is a software development manager in San Francisco with 10 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, currently leading multiple teams at Amazon to reinvent chatbot and voice-bot customer experiences. He blends backend systems expertise with product-minded management—mentoring engineers, serving as scrum master, and driving scalable ML and search-driven features in production. An active open-source committer to Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch, Zach has fixed critical span-query bugs, improved vector search, and added monitoring endpoints to a major distributed search engine. His background spans Alexa services and Lab126 device work, where he built ML-based traffic filters and search-based QA systems. Beyond code, he’s also a photographer and former international economics student, reflecting a mix of technical rigor and creative perspective.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, International Economics and Trade, Bachelor, International Economics and Trade at Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General at The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (21)
algorithm10
lucene10
algorithms10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
information-retrieval10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 166 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zach contributed to the Elasticsearch project by implementing and modifying core backend functionalities. Their work included adding support for new node publish address formats within the sniffer component, which involves parsing network addresses. They also addressed the max_clause limit in query strings, ensuring unmapped fields are excluded from the calculation. Furthermore, the user created new endpoints for the _cat/transform API, enhancing the system's monitoring capabilities.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
zacharymorn/lucene
Mar 2021 - May 2024
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Contributions:3 reviews, 154 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 2 months
solrindexingapachesynonymssearch-engine
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