Wei Lee
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Lee is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Python-based web backend development, Airflow pipelines, and productionizing ML systems. Currently at Astronomer and an active Apache Airflow committer and PMC member, he combines hands-on refactoring and rule development with improving documentation and contributor workflows. His work at Rakuten Rewards scaled data pipelines, automated ML deployment, and reduced costs through SQL and infrastructure optimizations. A prolific open-source contributor, he has improved tooling and linters (including contributions to ruff and commitizen) and polished docs for widely used projects like apache/airflow and git-extras. He led a 16-person educational program and has demonstrated effective cross-functional coordination and remote work discipline over multiple years. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, Wei pairs deep technical craft with a habit of continuous learning and conference participation.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 4.16 / 4.3, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 4.16 / 4.3 at National Cheng Kung UniversityHigh School, High School at Taipei Municipal Chenggong High SchoolExchange, Exchange at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
conventional-commits10
git10
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
python10
jinja210
ruff10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
rs10
google-cloud-storage10
code-analysis10
airflow10
command-line10
unit-test10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
commitizen-tools/commitizen
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Create committing rules for projects :rocket: auto bump versions :arrow_up: and auto changelog generation :open_file_folder:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:748 reviews, 423 commits, 603 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wei primarily focused on enhancing the `commitizen-tools/commitizen` repository, which provides tools for creating and managing conventional commit messages. Their contributions included refactoring configuration parsing for improved style customization, enabling the use of Jinja2 templates for more flexible message formatting, and implementing features to help users manage commit messages, such as an init command to initialize configurations. Furthermore, they were involved in making the command-line interface more user-friendly through fixes like the handling of missing commands and the addition of more arguments for version command.
changelogbumpversionpythonsemvercommitizen
apache/airflow
Nov 2019 - Apr 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:Back-end & Documentation Engineer
Back-end & Documentation EngineerContributions:1895 reviews, 518 PRs, 223 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wei's commits primarily involved updating documentation and examples, improving the clarity and accuracy of contributing guidelines. They replaced markdown-style links with reStructuredText (RST) style links and standardized Python versions across examples. Additionally, the user merged logic from an older GCSObjectExistenceAsyncSensor to the main GCSObjectExistenceSensor, enhancing the Google Cloud Storage object checking capabilities.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
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