Shu-chun Weng
Compiler Lead at MatX
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShu-chun Weng is a seasoned software engineer with 22 years of experience, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently joined MatX after a decade-long tenure at Google where they rose to Staff Software Engineer. They hold a PhD in Computer Science from Yale and combine deep research training with practical, production-grade system design and backend engineering. Shu-chun has a history of tackling low-level robustness and legacy code issues—evident from contributions to the widely known ptt/pttbbs project where they refactored functions to prevent buffer overflows and fixed complex backend bugs around money and post management. Comfortable in large-scale corporate environments and academic research settings, they bridge rigorous correctness with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues can expect an engineer who notices subtle reliability risks and systematically improves long-running systems.
22 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Yale University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
c1710
system-calls10
c-programming10
c1110
emulation10
system-programming10
qemu10
virtualization10
bugtracking10
networking9
refactor9
linux-kernel9
refactoring9
version-control7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ptt/pttbbs
Dec 2003 - Jul 2013
PTT BBS source code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:277 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shu-chun primarily focused on modifying the source code for the PTT BBS, including rewriting and refactoring functions such as `strip_ansi()` to address buffer overflow problems and improve code organization. They also addressed multiple bug fixes, particularly in the handling of money and post management in the backend system. Their work involved modifying core files to add functionality to board settings and address cross-posting behavior.
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llvm/llvm-project
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 8 months
compilerllvmtoolchain
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