About Me

Experiences

I wrote my first program, a calculator, using VBA in elementary school. Knowing USA is the best place to pursue a programming career, I came here 🇺🇸 and studied computer science at UMD.

I have 12 year of programming, arch design experience on my belt.

I worked as IC and product lead at Palantir since 2015 - 2022.

2022 - now, I live a small startup Claritype life, I do so many things that I joke about being the plumber 🔧 of the company (I don't do plumbing though).

Skills

Mainly a backend dev, I touched a lot of things:

• Team Lead and mentorship, I love to share what I learned.
• BE Stuff: Java, JVM, Python, LISP.
• Modern Data Stack Tech: Databricks, dagster, fivetran, dbt, SQL, duckdb, Spark
• Databases, SQL & NoSql: mysql, sqlite, elasticsearch, mongoDB
• Search Engines, elasticsearch, lucene.
• CICD, Deployment Management.
• Streaming: Kafka, Flink.
• Open source when I have time, VScode Swiper
• My favorite editor is EMACS.
• I wrote a few websites with svelte, vite, bootstrap, google firebase and vercel.

Links

• my github
• my linkedin

Hobbies

reading 📚, favorites are:

• Catch-22
• All the King's Man
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

hiking, I like mountains more than 🌊.

cooking delicious food 🍔 🍷 for my family and friends.