Shen-ta Hsieh
Technical Lead at Second State
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolShen-ta Hsieh is a Technical Lead based in Taipei with 18 years of software engineering experience spanning embedded Linux, cloud-native runtimes, and high-reliability backend systems. He has led product development at Synology and now guides engineering at Second State, blending hands-on C/C++ and systems expertise with team-level technical leadership. His open-source contributions include core improvements to projects like WasmEdge’s execution engine, syslog-ng stability and performance fixes, and Windows audio support for Music Player Daemon—demonstrating deep familiarity with low-level execution, concurrency, and cross-platform integration. Comfortable refactoring complex executors and fixing subtle memory and race issues, he brings a pragmatic focus on robustness and maintainability in production systems.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at National Chung Cheng University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (34)
c-language10
audio-playback10
wp-api10
com-port10
memory-management10
winapi10
c1110
wasapi10
c1710
performance-optimization10
visitor-pattern10
logging10
rust10
webassembly10
ws-api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
WasmEdge/WasmEdge
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
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:298 reviews, 344 commits, 253 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Shen-ta primarily focused on refactoring the executor logic using the visitor pattern and modifying the ValVariant structure in the WasmEdge project. This involves significant changes to the core executor of WebAssembly code and the underlying data structures. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the execution engine and how to modify core data structure effectively.
serverlessruntimedecentralizedwasmedgeedge-computing
MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Music Player Daemon
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 28 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Shen-ta primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the music player daemon. Their work includes fitting the libmpdclient interface, adding COM helper classes for Windows, and implementing the WASAPI output plugin, including its setup, device enumeration, and core functionality. Further contributions involve modifying the Windows build process and adding support for DSD playback.
audio-playermusic-player-daemonmpd-clientdaemonlinux
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