About

Victor Chen is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 8 years of experience in building data-intensive systems. He is highly skilled in backend development and data engineering, with deep subject matter expertise in Continuous Integration, Release, and Testing infrastructure. Victor has a proven track record of leading and accomplishing multi-phase projects to drive long-term impact across the organization. Currently, Victor is working at Google on BBCP, a core infrastructure that services depend on for CI/CD. He has led many projects to reduce developer maintenance and overhead by designing fundamental building blocks to be shared across the organization. Victor migrated legacy users of an unsupported pipeline to a new pipeline that is 50% more efficient and backed by SLO, all with minimal churn. He created "BBCP Presubmit," a CI/CD infra for preventing production outages. The beta launched in Aug 2021 and is generally available in Feb 2022. Victor also migrated a popular core service onto BBCP Presubmit for better performance and efficiency. The migration landed without any downtime. He has led a re-architecture of BBCP for better scalability and reliability and improved our pipeline's 99-pct latency SLOs by ~2 hours. Victor has influenced the technical direction for both client and sister teams and drove design and plans across teams. He has provided mentorship and scoped projects to help grow the career of 3 teammates. Victor has championed operational excellence and actively engaged with our clients: the developer community. He has built alerts and monitoring dashboards and maintained code health through code reviews. He wrote unit/integration tests with high coverage. Before joining Google, Victor worked as a Software Engineer at YouTube and a Backend Engineer at Uber. He improved testing infrastructure for developers by making it easier to test experimental features, thus preventing outages that would otherwise have costed upwards millions of dollars. Victor accelerated developer velocity by designing a faster and smarter way for sampling production data in data pipelines. He also collaborated with the data science team on designing a versioned classification manager for safety incidents reported on the Uber app. Victor holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, infra, CI/CD, Backend, test, Integration, Data Engineering, and Data Scientist.