Ning Qi
Co-founder at SegmentFault
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolNing Qi is a seasoned software leader and co-founder/CTO of SegmentFault, China's largest developer Q&A community, with 14 years building developer tools and communities. As PMC Chair of Apache Answer he steers an Apache Top-Level Project for scalable Q&A platforms, combining product vision with hands-on engineering. Creator of Typecho, an open-source PHP blogging engine maintained for nearly 20 years and starred 12k+ times on GitHub, he brings deep PHP backend and markdown parsing expertise. His contributions span front-end image tooling and polished UI work to backend parser refactors, reflecting a full-stack pragmatism. A prolific organizer of 50+ hackathons across Asia and Silicon Valley, he’s as comfortable growing developer ecosystems as shipping robust code.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronics and Information Engineering, Bachelor, Electronics and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
regular-expression10
markdown10
debug10
php10
javascript10
user-interface10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
parsing10
coffeescript10
parse10
image-manipulation10
web-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
typecho/typecho
Jul 2013 - Oct 2022
A PHP Blogging Platform. Simple and Powerful.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 89 reviews, 960 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ning's commits primarily focused on addressing specific issues related to the Typecho PHP blogging platform. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, modifying code within PHP files, and updating JavaScript files for features related to Markdown. The user's work touched upon several core parts of the system, including comment management, page and post editing, and table rendering.
typechophpbloggingblogging-platformmarkdown
segmentfault/HyperDown
Aug 2015 - Aug 2021
一个结构清晰的，易于维护的，现代的PHP Markdown解析器
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:163 commits, 4 PRs, 144 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ning primarily contributed to the PHP Markdown parser's functionality, implementing features such as hook support and footnotes. They also focused on bug fixes, including those related to code blocks, links, and the handling of special characters. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of the parsing process and its interaction with various markdown elements. The user refactored and optimized the existing parsing logic.
phpphp81php7php-markdownmarkdown
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