Chin-yeung Li
Open Source Software Analyst at nexB
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChin-yeung Li is an Open Source Software Analyst with 12 years of experience specializing in code provenance, license detection, and dependency analysis, currently working at nexB from Hong Kong. With a strong systems programming background in Java, C, and C# and extensive OpenGL experience building interactive 2D/3D scenes, he transitioned to Python for professional tooling and automation. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects like ScanCode and AboutCode, improving package metadata parsing, CentOS support, and technical documentation to make license and dependency discovery more reliable. Chin-yeung combines meticulous forensic code analysis with hands-on engineering, and his MS in Informatics (GPA 3.955) complements a practical eye for edge cases and documentation clarity that often goes overlooked.
12 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at San José State University
Github Skills (15)
dependency-management10
software-composition-analysis10
sca10
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
read-the-docs10
yarnpkg9
scanning9
scanner9
licensing9
npm9
centos8
rpm8
yaml7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chin-yeung primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the software's ability to parse and process package metadata, specifically related to package-lock.json and yarn.lock files. They fixed issues with namespace parsing and improved how the tool handles dependencies. Additionally, the user added support for the CentOS distro in the packagecode, expanding the project's capabilities. They also corrected typos and addressed edge cases related to file handling within the RPM package data parsing.
licensingdependenciesdependency-graphcode-scanningprovenance
aboutcode-org/aboutcode
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
AboutCode project: tools and data to uncover things about code: the provenance, origin, license, and more (packages, security, quality, etc.) of FOSS code
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chin-yeung primarily focused on updating and correcting documentation within the repository. Their work involved refining the ReadTheDocs documentation for the aboutcode-toolkit, addressing errors in specifications, and fixing formatting issues. They also removed and migrated documentation to other related projects. This demonstrates a focus on improving clarity and accuracy in the project's documentation.
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