Li-wen Hsu
Software Engineer at FreeBSD Foundation
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolLi-wen Hsu is a seasoned software engineer with 19 years of experience specializing in FreeBSD, systems engineering, and DevOps. Based in Taipei, she is a long-time FreeBSD committer and currently engineers at the FreeBSD Foundation, contributing to cross-platform tooling and platform compatibility. Her open-source work includes improving FreeBSD support in high-profile projects like osquery and enhancing Packer-based Vagrant baseboxes in the chef/bento repository, demonstrating deep practical knowledge of boots, packaging, and VM tooling. She also contributes to FreeBSD documentation and localization, having converted zh_TW docs from Big5 to UTF-8—an example of attention to both code and community. With an MS in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University and a background that spans academia, startups, and large-scale operations at Yahoo!, she blends research-grounded rigor with production-hardened engineering.
19 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University
Github Skills (29)
scripting10
utf10
xslt10
freebsd10
bash10
localization10
script10
packer10
virtualization10
sh10
shell10
vagrant10
documentation10
cmake9
automation9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
chef/bento
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 31 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Li-wen's contributions primarily focus on improving the FreeBSD basebox builds within the `chef/bento` repository. They made several changes to the FreeBSD scripts, including installing virtual machine tools, updating packages, and optimizing the boot process. They also addressed issues related to disk space utilization and configuration settings within the FreeBSD environment, further improving the basebox. Furthermore, they have added and modified packer templates.
hyper-vfreebsdvmware-fusionvagrantvms
freebsd/freebsd-doc
Apr 2007 - Jan 2023
FreeBSD doc tree (read-only mirror)
Role in this project:Technical Writer / Localization Specialist
Technical Writer / Localization SpecialistContributions:8 reviews, 286 commits, 15 PRs in 16 years
Contributions summary:Li-wen primarily contributed to the FreeBSD documentation project, focusing on content updates and translations. Their work included adding links to the 2007 news and press archives, updating links to the YouTube channel, removing EOL'd versions from the sidenav and correcting links within i18n pages. A significant contribution involved converting zh_TW documentation from Big5 to UTF-8 encoding.
freebsdread-onlynetbsd
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