zerol
Software Engineer
Shanghai, China
Summary
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Rockstarzerol is a pragmatic software engineer based in Shanghai with nine years of hands-on experience building developer-focused tooling and full-stack features. He contributes to notable open-source projects like copilot-emacs, where he implemented completion enhancements, suggestion cycling, delayed completion, and login flows—demonstrating attention to UX details in editor integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he’s known for practical refactors (e.g., adopting s.el for string handling) and fixing subtle bugs such as tab-mode and column-calculation issues. Though self-described as an "average programmer," his steady open-source impact shows a focus on reliability and incremental improvements that benefit other developers.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
code-completion10
emacs-lisp10
strings9
text-manipulation9
json8
user-interface7
authentication7
user-authentication7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
copilot-emacs/copilot.el
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 105 commits, 83 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Zerol primarily contributed to the development of the Emacs Copilot plugin, focusing on features and improvements related to code completion. Their work includes bug fixes for tab mode and column calculation, adding support for delayed completion, and implementing cycling through suggestions. They also refactored the code to use s.el for string manipulations, improved user interactions, and added login functionality.
emacsemacs-lspgithub-copilotcopilot
zerolfx/shanbay-helper
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 34 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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