# Chuen Liang

> Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chuen

Full-stack developer with interests in platform development and distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Clusters / Compute Fabric:
▪ Tech-Lead on Dataplane platform team

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California
Video Infra - Workflows & Compute Team:
▪ Building the next generation of distributed services supporting all of Meta’s (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, AR/VR) media workflows involving Video-On-Demand & Live streaming.
▪ Drove the scalability & reliability of our architecture to accommodate the vast growth in video ingestion.
▪ Led initiatives around efficiency and multi-tenancy of our back-end compute farm resulting in savings in the mid-eight figures in yearly hardware/power costs.

### Sr. Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
Amazon Publishing Insights:
▪ Led the development for a number of confidential internal projects focusing on data analytics and prediction modeling.
▪ Laid the framework and platform for data gathering, processing, and presentation which is now leveraged by a number of other projects within the organization.

Kindle Scout:
▪ Co-led the design, development, and launch of a brand new crowd-sourced book publishing platform.
▪ Founding member of team tasked with growing the team from 2 to 8+ engineers while spawning off multiple new projects.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Media Services, Website Application Platform:
▪ Worked on a highly scalable and distributed platform for ingesting, rendering, and serving all forms of media used within Amazon's web properties.
▪ Designed and developed a new platform for specifically handling the ingestion and transcoding of videos, and serving the relevant metadata and content.
▪ Designed a new workflow system for handling product image uploads to overcome existing throughput bottlenecks.
▪ Managed the setup and operation of our multi-level caching infrastructure along with external CDNs.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Redmond, WA
Windows Live Messenger Web Platform:
▪ Founding member of team tasked with building overall test infrastructure for Messenger Web Platform.
▪ Designed and implemented the main functional testing framework used by the team.
▪ Researched and established the state-machine based model for writing all our test cases.
▪ Led the performance testing efforts in the team to reduce overall page load & sign-in time by half.
▪ Designed and setup an automated system for running test automation and generating reports that can be easily analyzed.
▪ Drove the team effort in ensuring test automation pass rates were kept high on a day-to-day basis.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Redmond, WA
Windows Live Messenger Server:
▪ Led the design and execution of the test plan for hosting Messenger Server on multiple clusters.
▪ Actively involved in the design process of the feature and raised numerous breaking design issues.
▪ Contributed regularly to the tools library which assisted in the creation of test automation and sharing of code.
▪ Designed and implemented LogGrabber tool using C# and Windows Forms which greatly improved the speed and efficiency of downloading and analyzing logs from multiple servers.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Toronto
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
Network Architecture Lab:
▪ Performed comparative analysis of various different peer-to-peer networks.
▪ Designed and implemented a Voice-over-IP (SIP) system running over-top an unstructured peer-to-peer network topology.
▪ Developed test scripts and scenarios and performed the testing of the system with over 1000 nodes.
▪ Proposed and implemented an “overload factor” algorithm that noticeably improved the performance characteristics of the topology implanted.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering
University of Toronto

### Management Finance Program
Ryerson University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chuen-liang-2973ba6

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Last updated: 2026-04-12