Shu-chun Weng
Software Engineer at MatX
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShu-chun Weng is a software engineer with 21 years of experience, currently at MatX in the San Francisco Bay Area after a decade as a Staff Software Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Yale and has a background as a graduate researcher and teaching assistant, combining academic rigor with hands-on mentorship. His open-source contributions include work on the widely used ptt/pttbbs, where he refactored C code to fix buffer overflows and subtle backend bugs, demonstrating systems-level and security-minded engineering. He is adept at translating research-grade understanding into production-hardened systems and is known for addressing edge cases like cross-posting behavior and resource handling that surface at scale.
22 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Yale University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
c1710
system-calls10
debug10
c-programming10
system-programming10
emulation10
c1110
qemu10
virtualization10
bugtracking10
networking9
refactor9
linux-kernel9
refactorings9
refactoring9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ptt/pttbbs
Dec 2003 - Jul 2013
PTT BBS source code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:277 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shu-chun primarily focused on modifying the source code for the PTT BBS, including rewriting and refactoring functions such as `strip_ansi()` to address buffer overflow problems and improve code organization. They also addressed multiple bug fixes, particularly in the handling of money and post management in the backend system. Their work involved modifying core files to add functionality to board settings and address cross-posting behavior.
bbstypescriptptt
llvm/llvm-project
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 8 months
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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