Chin Liao
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolChin Liao is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of cross-domain experience spanning consumer media, cybersecurity, startups, and public blockchains, currently contributing at Circle from Taipei. He is fluent in Python, Go, C and C++ and has moved from building end-user products like PowerDVD and antivirus agents to backend systems, consensus engines for a proof-of-stake blockchain, and subscription/billing platforms. Chin has a track record of hardening distributed systems—evident in contributions that improved stability and deadlock handling in the widely used pion/webrtc Go project—and has implemented async integrations for Python web frameworks. His background includes independent research on public opinion grouping, bringing a data-driven, research-informed perspective to engineering problems. Colleagues describe him as a "neutral programmer" who learns new languages (now exploring Rust) and prefers pragmatic, test-backed solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
tornado10
go10
golang10
rest-api10
webrtc10
concurrency10
srtp9
django9
dtls9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pion/webrtc
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chin primarily contributed to improving the stability and reliability of the Pion WebRTC implementation. Their work involved fixing potential deadlocks related to lock acquisition in the `PeerConnection` and `DTLSTransport` components. They also added functionality to allow for packet buffer recycling and refined the behavior of `SetReadDeadline` for both `RTPReceiver` and `RTPSender` and added `SetReadDeadlineSimulcast` to the receiver. Furthermore, the user added test cases to ensure the correctness of the system.
gowebrtcgolangpion-webrtcortc
toastdriven/restless
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Chin implemented and tested features for integrating Tornado with the restless framework. Their commits added support for Tornado-specific resources by creating a `TornadoResource` class and related utilities. The user's work includes implementing asynchronous methods, handling request methods, and providing a mechanism to override the default `RequestHandler`. Additionally, the user updated documentation and tests to validate the new Tornado integration.
pythonrestrestful-apidjangoflask
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