Kevin Shen is a Full Stack Developer and software architect with 10 years of experience building reliable web and backend systems from Shanghai. He pairs practical engineering with a game developer’s creativity—shipping full-stack applications while exploring indie game projects. An active open-source contributor, Kevin has improved compatibility and formula evaluation in the popular NPOI .NET library, helping ensure correct Excel calculations without Microsoft Office dependencies. Grounded in a Computer Science degree from Shanghai University, he blends low-level problem solving with system design and a knack for debugging complex library behavior that often goes unnoticed.
10 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Shanghai University
a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the functionality and compatibility of the NPOI library. They addressed bugs related to the IFERROR and MATCH functions, ensuring correct calculations and handling of missing arguments. Furthermore, the user added support for ArrayPtg evaluation, although this was later reverted. Their work directly impacts the library's ability to correctly interpret and process Excel formulas.
Contributions:15 releases, 118 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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