Maya Chen
Staff Infrastructure Engineer · Brooklyn, NY · github.com/maya-chen · maya@chen.dev
Summary
Staff-level infrastructure engineer with 7 years of open-source contribution. Builds distributed systems, ML platforms, and edge runtimes in Rust, Python, and TypeScript. Author or co-author of three repositories with combined 6,843+ stars and 184 distinct collaborators.
Notable Open-Source Work
ferrium/task-queue · Author & maintainer★ 2,421 · 2020-08–present
Rust · distributed-systems · rust · async
- Distributed task queue with at-least-once delivery, in Rust. Powers async work for ~40 backend services.
- Stewarded 32 contributor codebase with 187 forks across production deployments.
lumen/ml-pipelines · Core maintainer★ 1,184 · 2021-04–present
Python · mlops · python · kubernetes
- Pipeline toolkit for shipping ML models to production — feature stores, model registries, eval harness.
- Stewarded 28 contributor codebase with 96 forks across production deployments.
edge-fn/runtime · Co-author★ 1,893 · 2022-02–present
TypeScript · wasm · edge · v8
- WASM-based edge function runtime with sub-ms cold starts. Sandboxes untrusted workloads on shared infra.
- Stewarded 19 contributor codebase with 142 forks across production deployments.
grok-replay · Author★ 487 · 2023-06–present
Go · grpc · go · debug
- Record/replay debugger for gRPC services. Captures real prod traffic and replays against canaries.
- Stewarded 9 contributor codebase with 31 forks across production deployments.
Technical Skills
Languages
Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go, Shell
Infra
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse
ML / LLM
PyTorch, ONNX, CUDA, eval harnesses, feature stores
Runtimes
Tokio, WASM, V8 isolates, Bazel
Career Trajectory
2025
Current focus
Reducing edge runtime cold-start from 0.8ms → 0.2ms. Mentoring two new maintainers on `task-queue`.
2024
LLM eval infra at scale
Pivoted into LLM platform work. Built `eval-harness` and wired it into CI for 6 production LLM apps.
2023
`grok-replay` + first conference talk
Built a record/replay debugger for gRPC. Presented at StrangeLoop — first time speaking publicly about her work.
2022
Co-authored `edge-fn/runtime`
Two-engineer side project that grew into a startup's core product. Sub-ms cold starts via WASM + V8 isolates.
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