I-fan Chen
Owner at 0xlab
Taiwan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolI-fan Chen is a seasoned embedded systems engineer and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building Linux-based platforms, package management and mobile middleware. As owner of NC and co-founder/developer at 0xlab, he blends hands-on development with product-minded framework design, having led GSMD and installer/launcher work at OpenMoko and delivered dual-mode Linux phone kernels and MMI frameworks at Compal. His open-source pedigree includes long-term Opkg and Open Embedded contributions and backend improvements to PackageKit that simplify APIs and enhance runtime diagnostics. Comfortable across kernel, filesystems, GUI toolkits (EFL/ETK/QPE) and telephony stacks, he is especially strong at system analysis and cross-layer debugging. Based in Taiwan, he pairs academic training in math and CS with a practical, long-term commitment to free software and embedded platforms. An interesting detail: he concurrently runs a nutrition club while maintaining active engineering leadership, reflecting an entrepreneurial, multidisciplinary approach.
19 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Math, Computer Science, bachelor, Math, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
package-management10
api-design10
dbus10
gobject9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PackageKit/PackageKit
Aug 2007 - Apr 2009
A D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:I-fan's commits focus on simplifying the API of the package management system, specifically within the `pk-engine.c` and `pk-task-dummy.c` files. These changes involve modifying signals, callbacks, and function calls related to package management operations like finding, removing, installing, and getting dependencies. The commits also include updates to TODO lists and the addition of runtime information to signals, likely to improve the performance and debugging capabilities of the package management system.
dbus
zodman/conary-backend
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:14 commits in 3 days
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