Chia-yu Chou
Product Developer at Synology
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolChia-yu Chou is a product-focused software engineer with 3.5 years in game development and a cumulative 11 years of technical experience, currently building products at Synology after a multi-year tenure at Rayark. He specializes in rendering and shader work—shipping toon shading, custom shadow maps, and a personal renderer project—while also improving pipelines through CI/CD optimizations that cut build time and redundant jobs. At Rayark he boosted artist productivity with a custom color sync tool and co-created an action editor that reduced repetitive programming for designers. Comfortable across systems from UI and character skills to turn-based combat and backend API integration, he blends low-level graphics skill with practical tooling and deployment experience for mobile platforms. Based in New Taipei, he pairs academic grounding from National Taiwan University with hands-on R&D like mobile facial motion capture, reflecting a mix of research curiosity and production discipline.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, Master of Science - MS, Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University
Github Skills (4)
rendering5
path-tracing4
transport4
simulation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xh5a5n6k6/high-dynamic-range-imaging
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
xh5a5n6k6/image-stitching
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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