Jhen-yung Hsu
Apache Kafka Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolJhen-yung Hsu is a systems-focused software engineer with eight years of experience specializing in embedded Linux, distributed systems, and computer vision, currently contributing to Apache Kafka and working on Linux for Tegra at NVIDIA. He brings a strong academic foundation—top-of-class BS and a near-perfect MS—to pragmatic engineering, regularly improving code quality, test coverage, and compatibility in high-profile open source projects like Apache Kafka. Comfortable across low-level system software and research-driven problems, he has a track record of removing legacy code, fixing cross-version broker issues, and clarifying documentation. Colleagues know him as proactive and collaborative, often bridging research, teaching, and production engineering to deliver robust, maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, 4.23/4.3., Master of Science - MS, Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, 4.23/4.3. at National Chiao Tung UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Information engineering, 4.0/4.0. Graduate at the top of class., Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Information engineering, 4.0/4.0. Graduate at the top of class. at National Changhua University of Education
Github Skills (7)
javas10
kafka10
java10
testing10
scala9
performance-testing8
build-automation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Oct 2024 - Nov 2025
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:226 reviews, 54 PRs, 232 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jhen-yung primarily focused on improving the Kafka codebase through various commits. Their contributions included refactoring and updating test cases, specifically addressing broker compatibility issues across different Kafka versions. They also fixed documentation errors and removed deprecated code, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user removed legacy code and improved test coverage.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
Yunyung/Software-Testing-NYCU-2021
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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