Minwei Chen is a full-stack software engineer with 13 years’ experience building and optimizing Java/Spring back-ends and JavaScript/Angular front-ends, based in Paris. He specializes in improving performance, scalability, availability and maintainability for systems in evolution and maintenance phases, regularly tackling production stability challenges. Curious about distributed systems, cryptocurrency, AI/ML and their applications in finance and marketing, he prototypes cloud-based projects that bridge research and production. An active open-source contributor, he improved native ad support and GDPR handling for the widely used Prebid.js project, demonstrating attention to real-world integration and privacy concerns. Trained at INSA Lyon with an exchange at EPFL, he pairs solid engineering fundamentals with a practical focus on team organization and cross-functional communication. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical debt into measurable reliability and performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
Exchange program, Exchange program at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Minwei primarily contributed to the Criteo bid adapter within the Prebid.js repository, focusing on improvements and updates related to native advertising. Their work included refactoring code, adding new features, and correcting functionalities for native ad formats, in particular, reactivating limited native support for mediation mode. The user also addressed issues related to providing user identifiers to the server, implementing GDPR compliance, and improving the handling of size information for banner ads. Moreover, the user added warnings for publishers regarding sendId for native assets.
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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