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 (200)
web-application10
sctp10
broadcasting10
mpeg-dash10
chunks10
webrtc10
low-latency10
png10
standalone-server10
python10
converting10
prometheus-exporter10
webp10
hevc10
flv10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
swaglive/docker-dind
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 3 months
swaglive/celery
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
redisrqtask-queueworkerdistributed-systems
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