Jason Cheng is a technology director and open-source advocate based in Taichung with eight years of focused experience improving enterprise IT infrastructure through OSS solutions. As founder of Jason Tools Co., Ltd. and long-time leader in the Software Liberty Association of Taiwan, he blends hands-on system engineering (Proxmox, Zimbra, Graylog, LibreNMS, Nextcloud, Wazuh, OPNsense) with strategic consulting for companies and government training. He’s contributed notable localization and core changes to the widely used LibreNMS project, bringing Traditional Chinese support to network monitoring at scale. Jason also serves as a technical advisor and educator across industry and academia, translating complex security and infra concepts into practical deployments. Known for pragmatic, community-driven implementations, he often surfaces lesser-known open-source alternatives to reduce vendor lock-in and operating costs.
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Contributions:24 commits, 32 PRs, 35 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed significantly to the LibreNMS project, primarily by implementing support for the Traditional Chinese language. This involved creating, renaming, and updating numerous language files to provide localization. Furthermore, the user made code modifications to the core application logic to accommodate the newly added language files and translations. The user also worked on a feature that translates settings strings into Traditional Chinese.
Contributions:76 pushes, 15 branches in 7 years 8 months
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