Wei Chen
Rust Programmer at Freelance
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Chen is a full-stack software developer with a decade of experience in government and defense-focused web applications and three years as a Rust programmer working remotely from Taipei. He has deep hands-on experience modernizing and maintaining legacy Java/Groovy/Grails systems, Oracle backends, and integrating front-end technologies like JSP/HTML/JavaScript/CSS. Comfortable in Scrum and distributed teams, he has supported large-scale portals for the U.S. Department of Defense HPCMP, handling deployment, testing, and database automation. A U.S. citizen who spends time abroad, he pairs government security-aware development practices with flexible, remote-first work habits. Trained as a computer engineer with a mathematics minor from Penn State, he blends systems thinking with practical implementation and a recent focus on Rust for modern, safe systems. Notably, his background spans both legacy migration projects and new-language adoption, making him effective at bridging old and new technology stacks.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at Penn State UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
cryptocurrency10
descriptor10
wallet10
bitcoin10
rust10
bitcoin-wallet10
client-library7
plaintext6
api3
staging3
api-client3
blocking3
async2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LagginTimes/bdk
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!
Contributions:5 PRs, 337 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years
LagginTimes/bdk_core_staging
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Staging area for bdk_core initial development
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
bdkstaginginitial
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