Force China
Software Development Engineer at LinkedIn
Daxing District, Beijing, China
Summary
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RockstarForce China is a software development engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building backend systems at LinkedIn from Daxing District, Beijing. He specializes in C/C++ systems and build engineering, contributing notable enhancements to high-profile open-source projects like libzip and Microsoft's vcpkg. His work added zstd compression support to libzip and helped enable HTTP/2 and modernize dependencies in vcpkg, showing strength in cross-platform build systems and performance-focused integrations. Comfortable navigating low-level libraries and build tooling, he bridges packaging, compression, and networking stacks to make native libraries more reliable and up-to-date. Colleagues value his pragmatic problem-solving and attention to build/configuration details that often hide behind polished releases. He brings a quietly philosophical outlook—“see the world as it is and love it”—paired with steady craftsmanship on infrastructure that millions depend on.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
lib10
compression-algorithm10
cmake10
c1110
standard-library10
c1710
build-automation10
package-manager10
c-library10
common-library10
cprogramming-language10
zstd10
curl10
zip9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:21 commits, 22 PRs, 54 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Force primarily contributed to the build process and integration of external libraries within the vcpkg package manager. Their work includes updating and integrating libraries like libgit2, llvm, and nghttp2. A significant portion of their contributions focuses on enabling HTTP2 support for curl, including addressing build configurations and dependencies related to nghttp2 and WinSSL. They also updated the mbedtls and nghttp2 libraries to newer versions, enhancing the manager's package offerings.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
nih-at/libzip
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
A C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Force primarily contributed to integrating zstd compression support within the libzip library. This involved adding new code for zstd compression and decompression algorithms, incorporating necessary include files, and modifying build scripts to detect and use the zstd library. Further contributions involved fixing minor issues with the zstd compression process and integrating zstd compression into the ziptool utility. The user's work focused on extending libzip's compression capabilities.
c-librarycompressionunziparchivezip
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