Stephen Wong
Computer Scientist at Oberlin College
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarStephen Wong is a computer scientist and associate professor with 13 years of experience blending academic research and practical software engineering. Based in Houston, he pairs classroom leadership at Oberlin College with hands-on open-source contributions, notably improving Nokogiri’s HTML5 parsing and test automation—work that involved integrating the Gumbo parser and tightening Unicode and comment handling. His background reflects strong back-end development skills, rigorous testing discipline, and an ability to translate subtle parsing bugs into robust library improvements. Comfortable moving between teaching, research, and production code, he brings a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach to complex language and parsing problems.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
test-automation10
ruby10
c119
c179
xml8
html8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sparklemotion/nokogiri
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 152 commits, 30 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily worked on improving the Nokogiri library's HTML5 parsing capabilities. They addressed several bugs in the parsing of HTML elements, specifically related to handling comments and Unicode characters. Their contributions included implementing fixes for various parsing errors, integrating the Gumbo parser, and improving error reporting. They also improved and expanded the test suite to ensure the library's functionality and correctness.
libxml2ruby-gemsaxxmllibxslt
stevecheckoway/nokogiri
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Nokogiri (鋸) is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support.
Contributions:32 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 5 months
parserssaxcssxmlruby
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