Yiwei Lin
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolYiwei Lin is a Senior System Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in Linux kernel power and performance optimization for embedded platforms, now contributing at NVIDIA. He has deep hands-on knowledge of low-power CPU and I/O features (PCIe, USB, UFS, NVMe) and routinely dives into the scheduler (CFS/EEVDF) and power management subsystems to identify and eliminate bottlenecks. At Phison he applied that expertise to firmware-level problems, and his open-source work—such as adding grouped-byte display and endianness improvements to the popular hexyl CLI tool—shows a knack for practical, user-facing enhancements. A lifelong learner with a cross-disciplinary academic background in computer science and biological science, he combines rigorous debugging skills with a curiosity for adjacent subsystems as needed. Based in Taiwan, he seeks roles where he can continue contributing to the Linux community and drive measurable gains in power-efficiency for real products.
8 years of coding experience
學士, Computer Science, 學士, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University碩士, Biological Science and Technology, 碩士, Biological Science and Technology at 國立交通大學
Github Skills (10)
hex10
command-line-interface10
rust10
endianness9
binary-data9
clap9
tooling8
testing8
toolbox8
toolz8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sharkdp/hexyl
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A command-line hex viewer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yiwei focused on enhancing the `hexyl` command-line hex viewer. They implemented the "group bytes" feature, enabling users to display bytes in grouped formats (1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes). They also addressed compatibility issues with the `clap4` library and improved the program's endianness support. Their contributions centered on extending the tool's functionality and improving its usability through added options.
hexcommand-line-toolbinary-dataasciihexadecimal
RinHizakura/AmiRVOS
May 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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