Chih-hsuan Kuo
Tech Lead Manager at Google
Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolChih-hsuan Kuo is a tech lead manager based in Taipei with 13 years of hands-on C/C++ and systems engineering experience, currently leading teams at Google. He has a strong background in cross-platform systems for smart home and media products, having built feature-flagging, telemetry, and low-latency streaming solutions for Nest and Android TV. A long-time contributor to browser engines like Servo and Firefox, he specializes in CSS/layout engine work—improving image/background rendering, CSS units, and compatibility while adding robust unit tests. His work blends low-level performance engineering with pragmatic tooling (including a custom JNI code generator) to make cross-language integrations safer and faster. Known as an open-source lover, he pairs production-grade code with architectural thinking and has even reduced UI latency dramatically through targeted engine redesigns. He also coaches algorithmic thinking from his early ACM-ICPC teaching experience, bringing mentoring and technical rigor to his leadership.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University
Japanese, Chinese, English, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
css10
web-platform10
rust10
servo10
webengine10
parse10
unit-testing8
whitespace6
vim6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
servo/servo
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & CSS/Web Platform Specialist
Back-end Developer & CSS/Web Platform SpecialistContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 54 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chih-hsuan primarily contributed to the Servo browser engine by implementing and refining CSS-related features. They focused on enhancing the engine's handling of CSS properties, including image rendering, background/mask positioning, and cursor styles. Key additions involved supporting new CSS units, context properties, and addressing specific browser compatibility issues related to the `-moz-` prefix. The user also added unit tests to validate the correctness of their implemented changes.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
kuoe0/vim-buffer-switch
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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