Alan Tsai
Principal Engineer at TSMC
Taichung, Taiwan
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Top SchoolAlan Tsai is a Principal Engineer and Microsoft MVP with 12+ years building cloud-native and .NET systems, currently shaping platform architecture at TSMC after senior leadership roles including Software Architect and CTO. He combines deep backend expertise in ASP.NET Core, Web API and C# with practical DevOps, container and Azure skills, and a track record of driving product roadmaps, team building and measurable delivery improvements. An active technical evangelist and educator (MCT, blogger, YouTuber, conference speaker), he amplifies his impact through translations, open-source localization—most notably adding Traditional Chinese support to the widely used ShareX project—and community leadership in Taiwan. Alan’s career spans hands-on implementation to strategic architecture and pre-sales, enabling him to move fluidly between coding, customer-facing roles and org-level planning. He is passionate about learning emerging areas like data science and conversational AI and regularly shares insights that help teams troubleshoot and adopt best practices.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Hull
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
translation10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
localize10
localization10
locale10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
localized10
share-files10
asp-net-mvc9
html6
git6
umbraco6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ShareX/ShareX
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alan's primary contribution involved translating the ShareX application into Traditional Chinese. This included adding language support, providing a language icon, and modifying project files to include resource files for the new language. The user also localized several forms and libraries to provide comprehensive Traditional Chinese support. This demonstrates a clear focus on expanding the software's accessibility and user base within the ShareX project.
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alantsai/blog
Apr 2018 - Jul 2024
Alan Tsai的隨手筆記部落格的原始碼 (http://blog.alantsai.net)
Contributions:8 PRs, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
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