Rex Tsai
Engineering Director at Canonical
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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SeniorRex Tsai is an Engineering Director with 21 years of software and systems experience, currently leading distributed engineering teams across Asia at Canonical. He combines strategic customer-facing technical leadership with hands-on expertise in embedded Linux, productization for OEM/ODM partners, and delivering complex commercial engineering projects. Known for breaking high-level requirements into actionable work while also diving into low-level debugging, he balances people management, resource planning, and escalation handling. Rex has a long-standing history as an open source and Linux advocate in Asia—running events, contributing patches and translations, and coaching teams on upstream-first engineering. His background includes presales technical engagement, proof-of-concept delivery, and driving product roadmaps for Ubuntu on diverse hardware. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction that bridges engineering, sales, and customer success.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese
Github Skills (99)
sdl10
rdp10
gtk10
imagery10
remote-desktop10
greasemonkey10
rdp-connection10
spice10
android10
editors10
vnc10
docker-image10
remote-control10
x1110
free-rdp10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chihchun/personal-income-tax-docker
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Docker image for accessing Taiwanese web-based personal income tax system
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 2 months
docker-image
chihchun/zim-desktop-wiki
Aug 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
zimwikiproject-wikidesktop
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