Kyle Chui
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Chui is a software engineer based in San Jose with seven years of hands-on experience building developer-facing tools and cloud data infrastructure. Currently at AWS after an SDE internship there, he combines production engineering with a research background—formalizing quantum gate implementations in Coq during a UCLA research role. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, Kyle maintains open-source Neovim tooling (nvim-surround), where he implemented multi-line surround features and refactors that improve editor interaction. He favors simple, maintainable designs and tooling that empowers other engineers, bringing both systems-level rigor and a keyboard-driven developer perspective to team workflows.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Prospect High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (7)
text-manipulation10
neovim10
lua10
nvim10
keymapping10
neovim-plugin10
api-design9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kylechui/nvim-surround
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Add/change/delete surrounding delimiter pairs with ease. Written with :heart: in Lua.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 40 reviews, 137 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the `nvim-surround` Neovim plugin by implementing features and refactoring code. Their work involved adding functionality to surround multi-line arguments, deleting and changing delimiters, and adding keymaps. They also refactored code, moving utility functions and implementing features to enhance user interaction with the plugin. This included work on both visual and normal modes.
luadelimiterheartneovimsurround
kylechui/latex
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:257 commits, 206 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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