Powen Tan
Senior Backend Developer at 美好金融 Good Finance
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolPowen Tan is a Senior Backend Developer with 13 years of cross-platform engineering experience, currently building Python backend services at Good Finance in New Taipei. He has a strong history at Trend Micro developing cloud-native Python services on AWS and prior experience in frontend React, browser plugins, and Windows/Mac desktop applications. Early work in high-performance C/C++ real-time stock systems honed his skills in socket programming, binary protocols, and Unix administration. An avid learner of new languages and productivity tooling, he often writes helper scripts to streamline development and improve code quality. Powen is also an active open-source contributor—his significant enhancements to the vim-orgmode plugin include checkbox features, a calendar-integrated date picker, subtasks syntax highlighting, and added tests to boost stability. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity-driven approach to tooling and automation.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Chung Cheng University
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
python10
org-mode10
vimscript10
syntax-highlighting9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jceb/vim-orgmode
Jul 2012 - Sep 2014
Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Powen significantly contributed to the `vim-orgmode` repository by implementing features related to checkbox functionality and enhancements. They integrated a calendar plugin to provide a date picker and added syntax highlighting for breaking down subtasks within the orgmode environment. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code, improved the user experience with new features, and fixed bugs to ensure the plugin's stability. They were also responsible for adding test cases to improve the code coverage and refactor functions.
vimorg-modeoutliningtask-managementemacs
binghuan/mycoffee
Aug 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:105 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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