# Julien He

> Software Engineer at Yugabyte

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/julienhe

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Yugabyte
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Core database team

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yugabyte
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Backend Software Engineer Intern @ Cognite AS
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Oslo, Norway
• Implemented batch processing of resources from Spanner to ElasticSearch, reducing latency by 99% — (Java)
• Added REST API endpoints for efficiently retrieving large amounts of hierarchical data from a relational database — (Java)
• Created additional alerts and improved tools to help catch and debug bugs before affecting production environments, including Unleash toggles and OpenTracing/Lightstep
• Worked on fixing various bugs, improving tests, and adding better documentation

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cognite AS
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Oslo Area, Norway
• Developed the Cognite Data Source plugin(https://grafana.com/plugins/cognitedata-datasource) for Grafana (open-source graphing and monitoring tool) — (TypeScript)
• Designed and implemented a querying language to allow for custom querying and applying functions on time series
• Took on full responsibility of the project, bringing it from a prototype to a released product - this includes speaking with customers to get feedback, communicating with Grafana representatives, creating help guides, and improving the development experience
• Worked on an Apache Beam I/O connector, adding support for efficiently and accurately copying large amounts of interconnected resources — (Java)

### Software Developer Intern @ Sony Creative Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Waterloo, Canada
• Worked on Ci, a cloud-based media storage and collaboration service — (C#)
• Developed the Ci Workspace Adobe Premiere extension that allows for an integrated view to the Ci Workspace, importing of files and proxies, uploading of project files and custom rendered sequences— (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C)
• Added support for retrieving metadata from certain file formats through an internal command line tool— (C, C++)
• Used AWS Transcribe to perform automatic transcription generation on video files— (C, various AWS services)
• Also worked on a video editing and processing application, fixing back- and front-end bugs— (C++, Qt framework)

### Junior Software Engineer in Test @ Solace
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ottawa, Canada Area
•	Added extra functionality to the automation infrastructure, such as using OpenSSL for automatic certificate generation, thus allowing for easier testing by quality assurance testers (TCL)
•	Helped to implement the foundations of a new cloud testing framework, such as assertion libraries and test loggers. This allowed for cloud testing in AWS through Postman (Nodejs, Python)
•	Maintained the MySQL database of QA test results
•	Improved the internal QA website by incorporating better ways for managers to assign issues to members of their team, providing more diagnostics and data regarding test results, and making it easier for users to view all their current tasks (PHP, jQuery, CSS, HTML)

### Assistant Taekwondo Instructor @ Black Belt Excellence Martial Arts Academy
Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 | Ottawa, Canada Area
Taught Taekwondo as an instructor for the Lil' Ninjas program, as a senior summer camp counselor, and as an after-school instructor
• Took on a senior leadership role; taught Taekwondo to children from kindergarten to Grade 6, assisted students with homework, and supervised various activities
• Developed teamwork skills by working with other instructors, and by helping to guide the newer instructors
• Communicated with parents to provide a positive experience for their children, and led discussions with other instructors after each class for self-improvement


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julien-he

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Last updated: 2026-04-11