Willis Chen
Senior Engineering Manager at Five9
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWillis Chen is a seasoned engineering leader specializing in big data and distributed systems, with a decade of experience delivering production-grade platforms at scale. He is currently Senior Engineering Manager at Five9, guiding cross-functional teams to build resilient, data-driven systems, after serving as Principal Engineer at Five9 and shaping Cisco's big data initiatives within the Chief Technology and Architecture Office. His career blends industry with academia: a PhD in Grid Computing and Interoperability from Brunel, research roles at the University of Southampton, and leadership in UK/EC-funded ICT projects. An active open-source advocate, he contributed to PDNA.io as contributor, maintainer, and evangelist, and chairs international standardization groups focused on Grid and Cloud computing. Based in East Hampshire, UK, he brings hands-on engineering, research rigor, and strategic leadership to accelerate scalable data infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Grid Computing and Interoperability, PhD, Grid Computing and Interoperability at Brunel University
Github Skills (22)
autocomplete9
compose8
web-application7
api7
health7
salt7
sql6
databases6
data-warehouse6
database5
cli5
linux5
monitoring5
javascript4
snmp4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willis27/odl-kafka-plugin
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
willis27/pnda
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 14 days
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