Daryl Chew
Software Engineer
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolDaryl Chew is a software engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of professional experience and an active presence in open-source communities. As a core developer for the ManimCommunity project, he has improved performance and clarity by caching OpenGL camera view matrices, removing unused code, and tightening configuration and CLI documentation. He operates across the full stack on a niche but widely used Python animation framework, balancing low-level optimization with developer-facing documentation. A National University of Singapore attendee, Daryl combines practical engineering discipline with a penchant for clean, maintainable code—evident in targeted cleanups like simple_functions.py. Notably, his contributions show a focus on both runtime efficiency and improving newcomer onboarding, helping broaden adoption of mathematical animation tools.
11 years of coding experience
National University of Singapore
Github Skills (6)
python10
animation10
manim10
documentation10
opengl9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ManimCommunity/manim
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:491 reviews, 16 commits, 192 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daryl contributed to the Manim community project by removing unused code and improving the existing documentation. They made changes to the configuration tutorial, updating the CLI instructions and config file examples. The user also improved performance by caching the view matrix for the OpenGLCamera. They also cleaned up and optimized parts of the simple_functions.py file.
mathpythonanimationmathematicalpython-framework
Darylgolden/manim
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
Animation engine for explanatory math videos
Contributions:27 PRs, 1291 pushes, 84 branches in 2 years 7 months
mathanimationvideosanimation-engineeasing-functions
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