Eric Yen
Team Lead Of Core Infrastructure at Comet
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Yen is a team lead and software engineer with 12 years of experience who bridges scientific research and production engineering to build robust core infrastructure. Currently leading Core Infrastructure for Dragonfly Development at Comet, he previously migrated a legacy Windows codebase to portable, standards-compliant C++ and manages Linux releases and a Python/C++ integration using SIP. Trained as a PhD biophysicist from McGill, he applies quantitative, physics-informed thinking to image processing, plugin design, and developer tooling—skills honed while developing new methods to probe mitotic spindle structure. Comfortable both managing teams and diving into low-level implementation, he enjoys software development “for fun” and brings a researcher’s rigor to shipping reliable, cross-platform systems.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
nixpkgs10
filesystem10
nix10
wireguard10
mount10
nixos10
linux10
tauri9
api9
fuse9
low-level9
cpp9
gitlab-ci9
adblock9
makecode9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
EricTheMagician/infrastructure
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:126 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
EricTheMagician/nixpkgs
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 4 months
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