Hongbo Wu
Software Engineer at ElevenLabs
Singapore
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Top SchoolHongbo Wu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building web and backend systems across startups and established companies in Singapore, currently working on the ElevenReader app at ElevenLabs. He has strong Java/Spring Boot and PHP expertise, a background in Hibernate and communication, and a Bachelor of Computing from the National University of Singapore with further graduate study in computer science. Hongbo has contributed meaningful open-source work to Omnivore—implementing backend subscription and RSS processing fixes—and built an Obsidian plugin to import articles and highlights, showing an interest in personal knowledge and reading workflows. Comfortable shipping full-stack features, he blends practical production fixes with user-facing plugin design, and often focuses on compatibility and extensibility for older clients.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Computing (Hons), Bachelor of Computing (Hons) at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
markdown10
javascript10
mustache10
back-end-development10
plugin10
markdown-it10
backend10
obsidian10
templating10
rss9
python9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
graphql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omnivore-app/obsidian-omnivore
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Obsidian plugin to fetch articles and highlights from Omnivore
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 33 reviews, 71 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hongbo primarily contributed to the development of the Obsidian plugin to fetch articles from Omnivore. They added core functionalities, including the ability to fetch and import articles and highlights, and implemented settings for customization. The user also worked on rendering the articles with the highlights and notes, and added features such as date format configuration, filename customization, and the ability to use a template from a file.
obsidian-mdobsidian-pluginobsidianfetchhighlights
omnivore-app/omnivore
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:587 reviews, 1392 commits, 1585 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Hongbo's commits focus on modifying and updating backend components within the project. The contributions involve changes to the subscription entities, the RSS feed processing logic, and various function resolvers. A significant portion of the changes address compatibility issues with older clients and involve updating the save-page job process.
read-it-laterlogseqproductivitybookmarksreader
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