Louie Lu
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarLouie Lu is a Network Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience protecting and hardening enterprise networks, currently based in Gaithersburg, Maryland and working at Cisco. He brings a rare blend of security operations and software development skills, contributing code to well-known open-source projects like CPython’s IDLE and the Guake terminal where he improved UI/UX, testing, and session persistence. Louie also develops backend tooling for financial data (twstock), building robust fetchers, analytics helpers, and CLI utilities with accompanying tests. Comfortable across the stack, he translates operational security requirements into practical engineering solutions and automated tooling. His background as a systems engineer at NetWitness informs a pragmatic approach to incident analysis and telemetry-driven defenses.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
31reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
stock10
python10
testing10
finance10
configuration-management10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
gtk10
front-end-development10
tkinter10
yakuake10
emulation10
vte10
json9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mlouielu/twstock
Jun 2017 - Nov 2021
台灣股市股票價格擷取 (含即時股票資訊) - Taiwan Stock Opendata with realtime
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 154 commits, 73 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Louie primarily contributed to the development of core functionalities for fetching and analyzing Taiwan stock data. They implemented a `Stock` class with methods for fetching and processing data, including a `TWSEFetcher` and `TPEXFetcher` for different stock exchanges. The contributions also involved adding properties for calculating moving averages and other financial indicators, along with creating CLI tools for interacting with the stock data. The user also added test cases.
realtimetaiwanopendatastockfinance
Guake/guake
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
Drop-down terminal for GNOME
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 141 commits, 61 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Louie primarily contributed to the development of the Guake terminal application, implementing new features and enhancing existing functionalities. Their work includes adding the ability to save and restore terminal tabs, incorporating a search box for terminal content, and enabling features such as auto-saving tabs and drag-and-drop functionality. The contributions also involved improving the user interface by adding tab selection popovers and refining the visual appearance of the tab bar.
gnome-shell-extensionterminal-emulatorlinuxgnomedrop-down
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