Chun-min Chen
Software Engineer at Instagram
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChun-min Chen is a software engineer with over a decade of experience blending research-grade computer vision expertise and production systems engineering for large consumer products. He has shipped ML and vision features across Microsoft Azure, Windows Hello, Meta’s wearables and voice assistant, and Instagram ad moderation, while building scalable backends (REST, gRPC, Kubernetes) and C++ systems. A long-time contributor to Mozilla projects, he helped integrate Servo’s parallel CSS into Firefox Quantum and implemented nuanced web text/CSS features—work that influenced web compatibility standards. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on debugging of large user-facing applications and a history of successful open-source contributions to browser engines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityB.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, B.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
servo10
marionette10
css10
gecko10
rust10
testing9
web-platform9
webbrowser9
ux-design9
webengine9
browser9
html9
nm8
aba8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 49 PRs, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chun-min primarily contributed to the UI/UX aspects of the Gaia project, focusing on text selection functionality within the HTML5-based phone UI. Their work involved implementing and fixing integration tests for text selection, and improving the text selection dialog's positioning, size, and behavior. They also refactored code related to text selection and addressed bugs related to the context menu.
branchesphonejavascriptgaiahtml5
servo/servo
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 26 PRs, 168 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chun-min primarily contributed to the Servo project by implementing and integrating CSS features. They focused on adding support for properties like `font-size-adjust`, `-webkit-text-fill-color`, `-webkit-text-stroke`, and `text-justify`, which required modifications to the style properties, longhand, and shorthand implementations. The contributions involved writing gecko glue code to integrate the features with Gecko and modifying the existing properties' implementation. They also added support for properties like `image-orientation`, and `initial-letter` and fixed serialization of `border` shorthand.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
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