David Chen
CEO at GliaCloud Co., Ltd.
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a founder and CEO with 12 years in software and eight years focused on cloud infrastructure and AI, currently leading GliaCloud from Richmond, BC. He blends C-suite strategy with hands-on engineering — earlier as CTO of Tagtoo and through open-source contributions to high-profile projects like google-cloud-python, where he fixed data-storage edge cases and improved protobuf handling. His academic mix of applied mathematics, computer science and computational finance gives him a metrics-driven, systems-level approach to building resilient cloud services. Known for turning complex backend and data problems into reliable production systems, he bridges product, research and developer communities while staying active in practical engineering work.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Finance and Risk Management, Master's degree, Computational Finance and Risk Management at University of WashingtonBritish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Garage+
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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134answers
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google-app-engine
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byte
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python
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Github Skills (18)
protobufs10
python10
gcloud10
datastorage10
google-app-engine10
datastore10
protobuff10
protobuf310
protobuf10
testing9
encoding9
byte9
reverse-lookup6
foreign-keys6
google-cloud-storage6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Google Cloud Client Library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Google Cloud Client Library for Python by fixing data storage-related issues. Their contributions involved modifying helper functions and test cases to correctly handle null values, ensuring proper protobuf object initialization, and addressing list indexing problems. The user also added a test case to improve code coverage and ensure correct behavior. These changes directly impacted the functionality and reliability of the library's data storage components.
gcpappenginepythongoogleclient-library
Tagtoo/oauth2-appengine
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
oauth2oauthapp-engineruns
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