Hsing-yu Chen
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHsing-yu Chen is a backend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently based in Toronto and seeking full-time remote roles in Canada with Go. He has shipped production services at AWS (ECS Fargate, Finch) and improved container developer UX through substantive contributions to well-known open-source projects like containerd, nerdctl, and the Finch CLI. His strengths span backend engineering and DevOps—refactoring tests and build processes, consolidating version logic, and refining CLI command behaviors to improve reliability and usability. Hsing-yu pairs practical engineering with clear technical writing, having cleaned up documentation across container runtimes, and brings international experience from Taiwan, Silicon Valley internships, and an exchange at the University of Waterloo.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
testing10
command-line-interface10
containerd10
docker10
go10
dockers10
documentation10
command-line10
cli10
cicd9
devops9
regex9
json7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
runfinch/finch
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
The Finch CLI is an open source client for container development
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:167 reviews, 23 commits, 78 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Hsing-yu contributed significantly to the Finch CLI project, primarily focusing on improving the testing infrastructure and refining the codebase. They refactored existing tests, making them more readable and accurate by updating regular expressions and breaking down complex JSON objects into multiple lines. Furthermore, they made improvements to the build process. The user also refactored code related to the version functionality, consolidating duplicate code into reusable functions and improving error handling.
containerspodmanbuildpackdockercontainer
containerd/nerdctl
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 14 commits, 31 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hsing-yu primarily contributed to the `nerdctl` project, focusing on command-line interface (CLI) improvements and refactoring. Their work included updating command argument handling for `images` and improving documentation for `compose build`. They also refactored several command-line utilities, including `login`, `image tag`, `volume ls`, `container stop`, `system events`, and `container wait`. These changes suggest a focus on improving the functionality and usability of the CLI tool.
docker-imagecomposemultiarchcliipfs
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