Penk Chen
Principal Software Engineer at The Qt Company
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPenk Chen is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years’ experience specializing in automotive embedded systems, performance optimization, and safety-critical software. Based in Berlin and originally from Taiwan, he has led high-impact projects at The Qt Company and previously directed software development for automotive infotainment at Link Motion. He combines deep low-level expertise—hardware enablement, containerized secure architectures and real-time UI work—with a strong sense for UX and open-source practices. Penk has shipped OTA update systems, ported key Qt components, and delivered embedded WebKit/Chromium integrations across phones, TVs and IVI platforms. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with industry-standard safety compliance, he also brings an entrepreneurial edge from founding a contract studio early in his career. Outside core engineering he’s a digital nomad who applies design-minded thinking to performance and user-facing systems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Chung Hsing University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
kicad10
printable10
linux10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
raspberry10
camera10
forum10
armv810
tablet10
raspberry-pi-os10
prototyping10
coders10
javascript9
viewer9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
penk/MeeTo
Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:19 commits in 1 year
penk/SlateKit
Aug 2012 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 214 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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