Yifei Teng
California, United States
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Top SchoolYifei Teng is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience spanning web development, desktop C++/Java/C# applications, embedded C/C++, and OS-level work at Google. He has co-founded startups reimagining music with AI and run student open-source initiatives, blending product-minded engineering with entrepreneurial drive. At Google he contributed to PyTorch on TPU and previously worked on future-facing operating system projects, reflecting deep systems and ML deployment expertise. His open-source contributions include improving SwiftGit2 bindings to libgit2—adding repository operations and test coverage—demonstrating attention to cross-language tooling and robustness. Based in California, he pairs a computer engineering background from UIUC with hands-on firmware-to-cloud experience and a curiosity for classical and jazz that often informs his creative approach to problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic builder who enjoys bridging low-level performance with user-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, PCME, High School, PCME at River Valley High School, SingaporeBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGCE A-level Certificate, Semiconductor, GCE A-level Certificate, Semiconductor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
55reputation
927reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
testing10
libgit2sharp10
git10
swift10
libgit210
api-design8
audio6
ios6
openshift6
php6
internationalization6
audiokit6
google-app-engine6
jvm6
garbage-collection6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftGit2/SwiftGit2
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Swift bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yifei primarily focused on improving the SwiftGit2 library, updating it to support newer Swift versions (Swift 4, 4.1), and addressing deprecation warnings. They implemented features such as adding support for `unsafeIndex` and `git-add` functionality for repository operations. The user also wrote tests to validate the new `git-add` functionality. Furthermore, the user corrected the timezone offset calculation.
libgit2swift
TakefiveInteractive/Singularity
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 2 pushes in 28 days
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