He initiated and leads the effort to build Stylus, a high performance, scalable and fault tolerant stream processing system at Facebook. This system has been the enabler for many mission critical stream processing applications, such as Mobile Analytics, Instagram Trending, Page Insights, Chorus, etc. Before that, he managed the HBase and HDFS team at Facebook. Under his lead, HBase grew from an experimental project into a critical storage system powering Messages, as well as search index, operational datastore, etc. And HDFS team is powering one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters. Jerry Chen got his MSEE degree from University of Minnesota, and BSEE from Peking University.