Yu-chin Tsai
Principal Engineer at NCHC
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolYu-chin Tsai is a Principal Engineer and long-time open-source developer at Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing, specializing in free software for HPC environments. With 13+ years in research and engineering roles, he authored Partclone and contributed to seminal projects like DRBL and Clonezilla, tools widely used for disk imaging and system deployment. He leads subprojects including Tuxboot and PyDRBL, bridging low-level system utilities with accessible deployment workflows. Trained in library and information science, he brings a user-centric perspective to infrastructure tooling and supports public-sector adoption of open-source library systems. Based in New Taipei, he balances hands-on engineering with community advocacy, helping institutions adopt GNU/Linux and free software. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to turn niche research prototypes into robust, widely adopted utilities that simplify large-scale system management.
13 years of coding experience
Library and information science, Library and information science at Fu Jen Catholic University
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Github Skills (54)
fat10
partition10
partitioning10
vfs10
compatibility10
backup10
ntfs10
nfs9
gnome8
garmin7
gtk6
bind5
linux5
eas5
thunderbird5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Thomas-Tsai/kong-frontend
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
Thomas-Tsai/pms3003-g3
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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