Zian Chen

Technical Program Manager

Mountain View, California, United States12 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products.
Expert in big data technologies and resource management.
Proven track record in program management and product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure expert with strong program management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementBig DataProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAndroid SDKAngularJSApacheArchitectureBootstrapCC++CSSCloud InfrastructureCommunication TrainingCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisDistributed Systems

About

• Former software Engineer with deep understanding and experience in software development, distributed computing, resource scheduling, and big data processing. • As a program manager on the Microsoft News team, I am responsible for defining and delivering world-class News experiences to delight millions of users worldwide. • Collaborating across disciplines and international teams I am data-driven and user-researched focused on creating product visions I can get people on board with to work together to design, define and deliver beautiful, high-impact experiences for users • Experienced in leading large-scale projects across internal and external stakeholders, I take on big challenges, proactively plan, and calmly adapt to change. • I am known for my creativity, accountability, collaboration & communication, and the ability to stay positive and energize teams to successfully deliver projects whilst having fun and smiling along the way.

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

3 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Tiktok

Lead Technical Program Manager

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Work on areas including Risk Control, Data Sovereignty, Anti-Automation, Anti-Spam, Privacy and Compliance

Oral CommunicationTechnical ExecutionCross-functional Team LeadershipPerformance OrientedBig DataAgile & Waterfall Methodologies+11

Microsoft

2 roles

Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Work at Microsoft News and Feed team
Key responsibilities:
Generate product ideas, define requirements, and work closely with design, user experience, editorial, and engineering teams to launch new features across devices and the web.
Drive product improvements by working with internal and external partners.
Help analyze existing products and features and advise on future strategies

Oral CommunicationProgram ManagementProcess ImprovementTechnical ExecutionTechnical UnderstandingStakeholder Management+3

Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Work at Azure networking team

Technical Understanding

Hortonworks

Senior Software Engineer at Hortonworks

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Contribute code on various parts of Apache Hadoop YARN open source community project, including scheduling, preemption, GPU on YARN support, Ambari integration of YARN related features.
Push several HDP (Hortonworks Data Platform) mega features out of door, including Over-Subscription Based on Opportunistic Container, Apps to Queues Mappings Framework, Automated Mapping of Jobs into Queues, Support Dock-erized Spark jobs on YARN, Package Tensorflow Running on HDP, Support Generalized Resource-Placement in YARN: Affinity / Anti-affinity, Capacity Scheduler Async Scheduling.

HadoopYarnResource ManagementDistributed SystemsTechnical UnderstandingBig Data

Huawei technologies

Software Engineer

Aug 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Build scalable & clustered Node.JS server for enterprise network application.
Build frontend framework using Angular.JS, Express, Semantic UI, MVC architecture.
Extensively worked to build Model View Controller(MVC) architecture to ensure rapid application development for enter-prise application.
Develop frontend REST & websocket (Socket.io) APIs using Node.JS to interact with backend servers.
Develop interface between GUI & database(MySQL)
Composed comprehensive documentation for enterprise cluster monitoring system
Performed unit testing, white box, black box testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing with code review.
Worked on Java for backend, JavaScript for frontend.
Involved in development and execution of Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts
Participated in requirements development and analysis activities.

Technical Understanding

Split software

Software Engineer Internship

Apr 2016 – May 2016 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Understanding

Clemson university

Research Assistant

Aug 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

Designed and implemented a distributed/parallel numerical algorithm for calculating semantic similarity matrix between two large Gene Ontology sets using the Hadoop system, improving the performance 10 times.
Developed a Peer-to-Peer resource-sharing software for data exchange and service cooperation in the local networks. This software is based on the Gnutella protocol and implemented in Java with Swing-based GUI.

Technical Understanding

Marvell semiconductor

Software Engineer

May 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr

Implemented RTSP protocol based on Live555 open library for Wi-Fi Miracast feature on Google TV android SDK.
Implemented an android application for Google TV remote control feature using Cling UPnP library.
Designed code version control system for some projects, enabling hierarchical code review by Jenkins and Git.

Technical Understanding