Allan Lei
Staff Software Engineer at Circle
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolAllan Lei is a Staff Software Engineer based in New Taipei, Taiwan, with 15 years of experience designing scalable realtime systems focused on video and livestreaming. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to CTO at SWAG, where he led product and team growth before joining Circle to drive large-scale streaming and realtime architectures. Allan combines deep systems engineering—architecture, low-latency media pipelines and distributed services—with practical leadership in growing engineering teams and shipping production-grade features. His background includes cross-functional work at fast-moving livestream companies like 17LIVE and startups, giving him a blend of product sensibility and operational rigor. Collected dual computer science and interactive arts degrees from Simon Fraser University inform his focus on both technical robustness and user-facing realtime experiences.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachors of Science, Computer Science, Bachors of Science, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (183)
standalone-server10
sentry10
video-conferencing10
python10
http10
prometheus-exporter10
webp10
hevc10
libvips10
streaming10
vp910
resize-images10
wsgi10
zip10
stream10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
swaglive/careers
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
allanlei/python-zipstream
Dec 2013 - Jul 2018
Like Python's ZipFile module, except it works as a generator that provides the file in many small chunks.
Contributions:8 releases, 46 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 7 months
pythonzipstream
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