Kent Chen
Staff Engineer (Taiwan Team Lead) at Vivint
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolKent Chen is a seasoned embedded Linux and firmware engineering leader with 16 years of experience, currently serving as Staff Engineer and Taiwan Team Lead for Vivint’s smart camera systems. He has led cross-country teams of up to 20 developers and driven delivery of dozens of camera and access-device models across Ambarella, Innofusion and other ARM platforms. Kent’s deep hands-on expertise spans BSP/device driver porting, low-latency video codec work, end-to-end glass-to-glass latency optimization, and practical tooling like CI/CD, recovery modes and HAL abstractions that reduced maintenance burden. A pragmatic engineer who “eats his own dog food,” he consistently ships productivity tools and uses Vim daily, reflecting a taste for lean, efficient workflows. His track record includes transforming product lines into high-revenue offerings and creating resilience features that materially cut RMA rates. Outside of product delivery he follows and contributes to open-source practices (slides and tools publicly shared) and embraces low-level debugging and automation to squeeze performance from constrained devices.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science (CSIE), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science (CSIE) at Tamkang UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science (CSIE), Master's Degree, Computer Science (CSIE) at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (44)
ncurses10
libgit29
tui9
openwrt9
shell8
studio8
git-client8
merge8
emacs8
bash8
ruby7
linux7
directories7
homebrew7
google-translate6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chenkaie/DotFiles
Aug 2009 - Jun 2021
Contributions:612 commits, 83 pushes, 1 comment in 12 years
chenkaie/junkcode
Jul 2013 - Sep 2021
Junk code - needless to explain
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 years 3 months
explainjunk
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