Wei-ting Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Perpetual Protocol
Taiwan
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Wei-ting Chen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Taiwan with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable web backends, recommender systems, and data engineering pipelines. He has led architecture and infrastructure efforts that delivered 10x performance gains, migrated databases with zero downtime, and reduced OLTP load by 60% while introducing data warehousing and multi-region hybrid cloud operations. An active open-source maintainer, Wei-ting owns projects that collectively amassed 90k GitHub stars and contributed meaningful features like i18n and dynamic injection to popular repos such as pangu.js and awesome-python. He combines deep expertise in Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Spark, and Kubernetes with product-minded engineering—having implemented real-time billing, server-side A/B testing that lifted revenue, and personalized search services. Organizer of a 6k-subscriber programming newsletter, he pairs community influence with pragmatic engineering judgment and a knack for turning messy production problems into reliable, observable systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
html10
file-handling10
mkdocs9
mergetool9
chrome-extension9
css9
google-chrome-extension9
conflict-resolution9
conflict9
merge-conflicts9
implement8
nodejs8
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vinta/awesome-python
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:982 commits, 550 PRs, 755 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Wei-ting primarily contributed to `sort.py`, which involves sorting the entries in the README.md file. The commits focused on improving the sorting logic and addressing conflicts, likely related to merging changes from other contributors and addressing PEP style issues. The user demonstrated an understanding of file manipulation in Python and the ability to resolve merge conflicts. The user also implemented mkdocs to generate a static website.
python-librarypython-frameworkspythonframeworkpython-framework
vinta/pangu.js
Feb 2012 - Apr 2021
Paranoid text spacing in JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:485 commits, 34 PRs, 199 pushes in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wei-ting's contributions primarily focused on adding new features and functionality to the JavaScript-based text spacing tool. They implemented programmatic injection, enabling the extension to be applied dynamically. Furthermore, the user integrated internationalization (i18n) support and built an options page for configuring the tool's behavior. The user also integrated twitter-bootstrap and a refactor with less files.
javascriptuserscriptspacingparanoidnodejs
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