Zijian Chen
Software Engineer at Uber
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolZijian Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable systems on Uber’s SLM team in the Greater Seattle area. He holds a CS master’s from Columbia and a software engineering bachelor’s from Tsinghua, and his background blends production engineering with hands-on research from internships at Microsoft Research Asia and Carnegie Mellon focused on wireless systems. At Uber he progressed from a serverless-platform internship to full-time work indexing and managing crash logs and now contributes to service-level management infrastructure. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and production services, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to reliability and observability. Notably, his early work includes demoing Wireless VR research and implementing lightweight apps and backends during several fast-paced internships, signaling an ability to deliver end-to-end solutions across domains.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (24)
asynchronous10
task-management10
esb10
ecosystem10
cadence10
distributed-systems10
java10
stylus10
scale10
workflow-automation10
vuejs210
business-logic10
golang10
task-queue10
aerospike10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shaddoll/cadence
Mar 2021 - Apr 2025
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:5 PRs, 972 pushes, 584 branches in 4 years 1 month
scalableasynchronouscadenceorchestrationresilient
Shaddoll/Shaddoll.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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