Louie Weng
Software Engineer at Nx
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLouie Weng is a software engineer with six years of experience focused on backend and infrastructure, currently contributing to Nx’s cloud and build tooling from Vancouver. He has shipped production improvements to Nx Cloud—adding authentication fields, refactoring connection logic, and migrating builds to a V2 endpoint while preserving V1 compatibility—demonstrating care for developer experience and backwards compatibility. Prior roles at FreshBooks and Amazon honed his systems work on Elastic, RabbitMQ, and consumer-facing services, while earlier internships built skills in data platforms, automation, and developer tooling. Comfortable across full-stack codebases and monorepo build systems, Louie blends pragmatic engineering with an eye for developer productivity and operational robustness.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Business and Computer Science Co-op, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Business and Computer Science Co-op at UBC Sauder School of Business
Github Skills (14)
nxos10
monorepo10
build210
typescript10
build-tools10
nodejs10
javascript10
build-system10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
cli10
angular7
react6
cicd6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nrwl/nx
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Build system, optimized for monorepos, with plugins for popular frameworks and tools and advanced CI capabilities including caching and distribution.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 61 PRs, 186 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Louie contributed to the Nx monorepo build system by enhancing the Nx Cloud integration. Their work involved adding an `nxCloudId` field for authentication, refactoring and expanding the cloud connection logic, and implementing aliases for login and logout functionalities. They also modified the build process to utilize the V2 Nx Cloud endpoint, while ensuring backward compatibility for users still utilizing the V1 endpoint. The changes impacted multiple files across the codebase, including those related to cloud utilities, generators, and command-line interfaces.
nx-workspacesworkspacesclijavascriptcypress
lou-weng/career-advising
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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