Tom Bishop
President at Wenlin Institute, Inc. SPC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Bishop is President of Wenlin Institute and a software leader with nearly three decades steering the development and publication of Chinese learning tools, dictionaries, and textbooks. With a BA in Applied Mathematics from UC and nine years of active software experience, he combines product stewardship with hands-on backend engineering—contributing to the Unicode CLDR project where he improved data inheritance and normalization processes. He’s passionate about learning, problem-solving, and collaborative technologies, exploring crowd-sourcing and novel organizational forms like Social Purpose Corporations to scale impact. Comfortable shifting between technical refactoring and educational content strategy, he brings a rare blend of linguistic scholarship and robust software craftsmanship to projects that sit at the intersection of language, standards, and community.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Applied Mathematics at University of California
Github Skills (8)
data-structures10
javas10
data-structure10
java10
refactoring9
data-modeling9
api-design7
versioning7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/cldr
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
The home of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1722 reviews, 683 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom focused on refactoring and enhancing the CLDR data processing system. They primarily addressed issues related to the handling of inheritance and the handling of whitespace normalization within data, which is evidenced by their changes across multiple Java classes, including VoteResolver, DataPage, and CldrXmlWriter. Additionally, they implemented features to improve the robustness and functionality of the system, such as managing the handling of different user roles in the forum for data consistency.
data-repositorylocalecldricuunicode
btangmu/cldr
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Fork of CLDR Common Locale Data Repository
Contributions:1 PR, 761 pushes, 694 branches in 2 years 4 months
cldrdata-repositorylocale
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