Bright Chen

Bright Chen is a seasoned software development engineer with extensive expertise in building and architecting data pipelines and streaming frameworks. Currently serving as a Principal Software Development Engineer at Fortinet since October 2023, Bright Chen is responsible for designing intricate systems involving data publishing to Kafka, Clickhouse, and Delta Lake, along with developing a CAPWAP client and memory management modules. Prior to this, Bright Chen was a Staff Software Development Engineer at Lacework, focusing on streaming process frameworks and threat detection systems, and at Apple, leading the development of ETL products for large-scale machine learning and fraud detection. Experience also includes significant contributions at Amazon, where data enrichment and ingestion were pivotal, and a role as a committer at Apache Apex, refining memory management to enhance performance. Bright Chen holds a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology.