Wei-ning Huang
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolWei-ning Huang is a Staff Software Engineer and former CTO/co-founder with 16 years of experience building high-throughput, highly available web systems and crypto trading platforms. He combines deep systems expertise from years at Google (Chrome OS kernel, firmware, and Nest/Silicon teams) with hands-on blockchain product leadership at COBINHOOD and DEXON. A full‑stack engineer by practice, his work spans firmware and kernel space to backend, frontend, smart contracts and protocol-level contributions. He is an early adopter in crypto with 6+ years in trading infrastructure and has led engineering teams through product and scaling challenges. His open-source track record shows attention to robustness—fixing core communication bugs, file-transfer reliability, and tooling for C++ manpages—signals of a pragmatic engineer who improves foundations rather than only adding features. Based in Taipei, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with production-grade systems craftsmanship.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityEntrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Draper University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
tui10
debug10
tox10
instant-messaging10
c1110
c1710
regular-expression10
file-transfer10
api-design9
c-language9
security9
apidoc9
api9
cprogramming-language9
html8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aitjcize/cppman
Jul 2010 - Jan 2023
C++ 98/11/14 manual pages for Linux/MacOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 14 reviews, 410 commits in 12 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wei-ning primarily worked on the `cppman` project, which focuses on C++ manual pages for Linux/MacOS. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Groff formatting, as they involved modifying the `formatter.py` file to accurately convert HTML content into Groff syntax for man page generation. Furthermore, the user added features for table parsing and implemented methods to handle different table formats, showing a focus on improving the documentation generation process for the project.
cpplinuxmanualbitbakemacos
JFreegman/toxic
Nov 2013 - May 2014
A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Wei-ning primarily focused on bug fixes and API updates for the Tox-based instant messaging client. Their contributions addressed issues like incorrect cursor movement, file transfer problems, and null termination errors, which improved the stability of the application. They also fixed API ret code changes and name changes of ToxCore and added an option to switch off ipv6. The user's work primarily involved modifying existing code to improve functionality and address bugs.
dhtwebrtcvideodht-networkncurses
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