Jen Hong
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Hong is a software engineer with 20 years of experience who blends deep open-source C++/Python and Linux systems expertise with a rare clinical background as a qualified physician and rheumatologist. Now at Google in Mountain View after several years as a technical lead and senior engineer in Taiwan, she has delivered backend systems and contributed to long-running projects dating back to creating the PCMan BBS client. Her trajectory—from hands-on clinical practice and immunology research to a master's in computer science and production software at scale—gives her a unique perspective on building reliable, secure systems for health- and data-sensitive domains. Comfortable bridging interdisciplinary teams, she brings both domain empathy and technical rigor to complex problems.
21 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's Degree Medicine, Bachelor's Degree Medicine at National Yang Ming University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (103)
benchmark10
python10
freedesktop10
windows10
image-viewer10
http10
menu10
cpp10
operating-system10
qt10
keyboard-shortcuts10
weblate10
core-library10
linux10
bopomofo10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lxqt/libfm-qt
Feb 2013 - Apr 2019
Core library of PCManFM-Qt (Qt binding for libfm)
Contributions:426 commits, 67 PRs, 257 pushes in 6 years 2 months
core-libraryqt
lxqt/pcmanfm-qt
Aug 2012 - Jun 2018
File manager and desktop icon manager (Qt port of PCManFM and libfm)
Contributions:404 commits, 93 PRs, 138 pushes in 5 years 10 months
file-managerqt
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