Yifeng Wang
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYifeng Wang is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years' experience building high-performance full-stack systems and libraries, most recently co-founding Affine after a multi-year staff engineering role at Gaoding. Based in Singapore, he combines systems-level expertise (notably in image processing and Skia bindings) with frontend craftsmanship from earlier roles at Meituan and iFLYTEK. An active open-source maintainer, he significantly expanded image and ImageData capabilities in a zero-dependency Node.js Skia binding, emphasizing pure npm packaging and cross-platform performance. He also created typedgrammar and has a background in security from the University of Science and Technology of China, bringing pragmatic rigor to design and implementation. Balancing parenting with code commits, Yifeng is comfortable toggling between deep technical work and startup leadership. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who turns low-level graphics and tooling challenges into reliable developer-facing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (7)
napi10
nodejs10
rust10
image-processing10
image10
skia10
canvas10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Brooooooklyn/canvas
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
High performance skia binding to Node.js. Zero system dependencies and pure npm packages without any postinstall scripts nor node-gyp.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 48 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yifeng contributed significantly to the `canvas` repository, focusing on expanding its capabilities by implementing new features for the `Image` and `ImageData` classes. They added functionality to create, manipulate, and draw images, including support for various `drawImage` variants and shadow effects. Further contributions involved refactoring existing code, such as removing a `flush` operation, and updating dependencies to use Skia's `Bitmap` and `Image` functionalities for image processing.
dependenciesskianpm-packagesgypzero
toeverything/blocksuite
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
🧩 Content editing tech stack for the web - BlockSuite is a toolkit for building editors and collaborative applications.
Contributions:11 releases, 2931 reviews, 660 commits in 6 months
litcollaborationcrdtwebcomponentsaffine
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