Benjamin Yang
Software Engineer at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Yang is a software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience specializing in text engines, fonts, and multilingual systems. At Adobe he contributes to the Adobe Text Engine and previously ensured its quality, while his Long Now Foundation work led PanLex technology, Unicode proposals, and a Balinese input/font tool for palm-leaf manuscripts. A trained linguist (UC San Diego; Arabic study in Cairo), he blends deep language expertise with practical engineering—evident in his Pillow contributions adding language-aware text rendering and libraqm integration. He’s equally comfortable shipping C/Python core changes, building APIs and front ends, and leading internship teams, bringing a rare combination of orthography knowledge and production software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoArabic Language Institute, Arabic Language Institute at The American University in Cairo
Arabic, asl, French, Thai
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
python10
image-processing10
documentation8
testing7
cross-platform4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
python-pillow/Pillow
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Python Imaging Library (fork)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the text rendering functionality of the Python Imaging Library (Pillow). They added a new parameter, `language`, to text-related methods, enabling language-specific glyphs and ligatures. Their work involved modifying core C files, updating Python code, and integrating with the libraqm library to handle text layout. This user also improved documentation and added tests for complex font settings.
imagingpythonccross-platformpil
longnow/plexmark
Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
PanLex fake expression generator
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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