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Aidong Chen - VP of Data Platform Engineering in Orion Township, MI

Aidong Chen

Executive Data Platform Engineer specializing in kdb+/q and time-series systems

JPMorgan ChaseColorado State UniversityOrion Township, MI12 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks Remote

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Veteran kdb+/q engineer with 17 years of experience applying time-series architecture across finance, autonomous driving, semiconductors, and scientific data systems. He describes building high-scale CEP and sensor-data parsing systems, achieving a 10x ingestion speedup through storage redesign, and even contributing the original remote_execute concept to PyKX.

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Key Strengths

  • 17 years of kdb+/q experience
  • built production CEP and snapshot statistics systems for large-scale trading workloads
  • deep expertise in kdb+ architecture across tick plant, RDB, HDB, and IDB layers
  • strong performance tuning in q, including attributes and functional query patterns
  • schema-driven parsing for complex semi-structured sensor and wire data
  • cross-domain time-series expertise spanning finance, autonomous driving, semiconductors, and scientific detector data
  • storage architecture optimization and hot/warm/cold tiering strategy
  • 10x ingestion improvement by distributing I/O across 12 disks
  • ported a 2-petabyte HDB from KxControl to KxInsight
  • bridges Python and q ecosystems, including contribution to PyKX remote_execute

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Experience

VP of Data Platform EngineeringJPMorgan Chase · Aug 2023 – Presentcontract
Senior kdb+/q developerKX · Apr 2021 – Aug 2023
Technical Lead & HPC Manager – Autonomous Driving ProgramAptiv · Dec 2017 – Apr 2021
Senior Data Platform ConsultantWells Fargo · Apr 2020 – Nov 2020freelance
Data Platform Architect & ScientistKPMG · Sep 2014 – Oct 2017

Education

Colorado State Universitydoctorate, High Energy Physics
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciencesmaster, High Energy Physics (2000)
Nanjing Universitybachelor, Physics (1997)

Awards

  • 1st Place in the 2017 Algorithm Design Competition (Geocoding Modeling) - KPMG
  • National Math Olympiads Winner

Languages

English

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Aidong ChenExecutive Data Platform Engineer specializing in kdb+/q and time-series systems