Yunpeng Chen
Seed Team at ByteDance
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYunpeng Chen is a software engineer and researcher with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NUS and a decade of experience building production systems, algorithms, and startups across Asia and industry labs. Currently on ByteDance’s Seed Team, he previously led algorithms at Meitu and founded a Singapore startup, demonstrating both product leadership and deep technical ownership. He contributes to notable open-source projects—ranging from Raycast extensions to LangChain-for-Go—bridging front-end UX, back-end integrations, and LLM tooling with practical engineering fixes like streaming callbacks and authentication flows. His background includes research roles at Facebook and YITU, reflecting a strong foundation in ML research applied to real-world products. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that turns research insights into robust, test-covered implementations, and for a focused interest in LLMs and autonomous agents.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
apim10
openai-api10
javascript10
python10
langchain10
testing10
raycast10
webscraping10
scripting-language10
scrapy10
go10
api10
raycasting10
http-request10
crawler10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chyroc/WechatSogou
May 2016 - May 2021
基于搜狗微信搜索的微信公众号爬虫接口
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 222 commits, 226 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Yunpeng primarily focused on developing a web crawler for WeChat public accounts, as indicated by the description and topics. Contributions involved refactoring, incorporating new features, and fixing the program. The user implemented a session class for managing cookies, created and added proxy files, and encapsulated the functionality into a class, suggesting a focus on the core crawling logic and request handling.
pythonscrapypypispiderwechat-official-account
mattn/anko
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Scriptable interpreter written in golang
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:39 commits, 14 PRs, 70 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yunpeng primarily contributed to the Anko scripting language interpreter's backend, specifically by adding support for map deletion and addressing testing-related issues. They fixed existing tests and added new tests to cover the functionality of map deletion and other features. The user also modified core parts of the interpreter to ensure correct behavior of the delete operator and added some test coverage.
golangprogramming-languageinterpreterscriptablego
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