Weiliang Li
Independent Software Developer at Open Source Projects
Bunkyō, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolWeiliang Li is an independent software developer based in Bunkyō, Japan, with 11 years of engineering experience and eight years focused on web, machine learning, and blockchain development. He has led engineering efforts at Simplex and contributed R&D to Substrate-based consensus work at SBI BITS, while earlier roles at teamLab and BTCC combined Solidity, Ethereum, and Python backend systems for fintech and NFT services. An active open-source maintainer, his ecies js and py libraries attract large usage and his Substrate commits touch consensus, networking, and authority discovery—areas that demand low-level, reliability-focused expertise. Comfortable across back-end systems, cryptography, and distributed protocols, he pairs production-grade engineering with a linguistics-leaning curiosity that informs clear API and protocol design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 4.4/5 (Top 15%), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 4.4/5 (Top 15%) at Tongji University
English, Japanese, Chinese, Latin
Stackoverflow
1,203reputation
408kreached
26answers
3questions
ethereum
top-5%
Github Skills (25)
substrate10
debug10
consensus10
python10
apidoc10
networking10
polkadot-js10
api10
blockchain10
rust10
polkadot10
futures9
linux9
ethereum9
webassembly8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
darknessomi/musicbox
May 2016 - Jan 2021
网易云音乐命令行版本
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 96 commits, 106 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Weiliang primarily focused on fixing API issues and addressing bugs related to the application's core functionality. They updated the version of the application and fixed copyright issues. The commits involved modifications to the player and API modules, suggesting work on the core music playback and network interaction aspects of the application. These changes included bug fixes and code formatting, maintaining and improving the application.
musiclinuxnetease-musicboxpython
paritytech/substrate
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 27 PRs, 55 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Weiliang primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Substrate blockchain platform, focusing on low-level core functionalities. They modified code related to consensus mechanisms (Babe, Aura), networking, and messaging (gossip), and also made updates to the authority discovery module. Several commits involved refactoring and renaming code elements to align with new standards, updating dependencies, and fixing bugs.
substraterustblockchainparitypolkadot
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