Luke Tang
C Software Engineer at self work
China
Summary
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RockstarLuke Tang is a seasoned C and C++ software engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently freelancing from China after a long tenure at Autodesk. He combines deep systems-level expertise with practical library design, demonstrated by substantial open-source contributions to popular Swift JSON projects like SwiftyJSON and its Alamofire extension, where he improved parsing robustness and API ergonomics. Comfortable across back-end and mobile integration concerns, he has a track record of refactoring core data structures, exposing safer initializers, and fixing subtle bugs that improve real-world interoperability. His background at a major engineering firm and ongoing self-directed C++ work suggest an ability to deliver production-grade code and evolve legacy systems. Notably, he bridges low-level performance thinking with developer-facing API improvements, making complex data handling simpler for client applications.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
swift10
alamofire10
parsing10
mobile-development9
data-structure9
ios9
error-handling9
data-structures9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON
Jul 2014 - Mar 2020
The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 157 commits, 84 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on refactoring and improving the JSON parsing library. They introduced new methods to deal with JSON values and added functionality for converting strings to various numerical types. Further improvements involved changing the underlying data structure and implementation of features such as comparable, including error handling. Additional contributions include making the initialization methods public and adding support for getting raw data or string.
cocoapodsxcode10dealswiftyjsonswift
SwiftyJSON/Alamofire-SwiftyJSON
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
Alamofire extension for serialize NSData to SwiftyJSON
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the Alamofire-SwiftyJSON project, an extension for Alamofire to serialize NSData to SwiftyJSON. They focused on implementing the core functionality of the extension, including adding a response handler for processing JSON data. The user also added documentation and addressed a bug related to optional values in the JSON initialization, as well as fixing an extra argument call. This involved modifying and testing the Swift code to handle JSON parsing and integration with the Alamofire library.
swiftyjsonserializeswiftalamofirejson
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