Zhiyu Chen

Zhiyu Chen is a Senior Engineering Manager at Databricks, with extensive experience in leading engineering teams and infrastructure projects. Prior roles include Senior Engineering Manager and Engineering Manager at Houzz, where significant achievements included migrating production infrastructure to Kubernetes, ensuring GDPR and PCI compliance, and transforming engineering culture to prioritize unit testing. Prior to Houzz, Zhiyu held positions at LinkedIn as a Senior Software Engineer, where responsibilities included driving company-wide testing strategies and enhancing UI testing frameworks, and at Laserfiche as a Software Engineer, where contributions involved developing automated testing frameworks. Zhiyu began an academic career as a Research and Teaching Assistant at UCLA and holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Peking University.