Po-an Yang
Senior Rust Engineer at Network Guard
Taipei, Singapore
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPo-an Yang is a Senior Rust Engineer with 11 years of software experience, specializing in secure, high-performance systems from bare-metal deployments to cloud and Kubernetes. He has deep expertise in Rust and Nix, contributing to notable open-source projects like WasmEdge, RustPython, and gitui—work that spans Rust SDK bindings, core interpreter features, and UX improvements for a popular terminal Git client. His background includes building blockchain tooling and smart-contract ecosystems (Sui, Substrate, NEAR-related tools) and practical production experience with storage, networking, and AWS-hosted services. Po-an combines hands-on systems engineering with community-facing roles—running workshops, hackathons, and developer education—to scale developer ecosystems as well as teams. He brings a security-first mindset to every project and has a habit of prototyping low-level platform integrations (e.g., custom OS builds and embedded runtimes) that most application engineers don’t touch. Based in Taipei with international experience, he’s actively seeking long-term roles to build resilient, performant products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Chemistry, Master's degree Chemistry at National Taiwan University
Esperanto, Japanese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
git10
python10
formatting10
command-line-interface10
interpreter10
text-formatting10
bytecode10
command-line10
byte10
terminal-ui10
blazor-webassembly10
rust10
webassembly10
cli10
pasteboard9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
WasmEdge/WasmEdge
May 2021 - Dec 2021
WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 28 commits, 20 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Po-an primarily contributed to the Rust bindings for the WasmEdge project, focusing on improvements to the core functionalities of the Rust SDK. Their work includes updating include paths, implementing traits, and adding host function examples. They also made changes to the build process to integrate the standalone feature and ensure compatibility with older versions, demonstrating a focus on both functionality and maintainability of the Rust bindings.
serverlessruntimedecentralizedwasmedgeedge-computing
gitui-org/gitui
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Po-an made significant contributions to the `gitui` project, a terminal UI for Git written in Rust. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the application. This includes implementing customizable key bindings, adding features like copying commit hashes and file paths to the clipboard, and refactoring key management. Additionally, they fixed UI issues and improved the command list for the Revlog tab.
command-line-toolblazingrustcommand-line-interfaceterminal-ui
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