Ian Pan
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Pan is a software engineer at AWS with eight years of hands-on experience building low-level systems for cloud infrastructure, specializing in performant C across Linux kernel and user space for EC2 Nitro and Graviton platforms. He writes kernel drivers, microcontroller firmware, and BMC CoAP APIs that enable autonomous monitoring and recovery on server fleets, and previously designed a scalable telemetry aggregator during an AWS internship. A Columbia CS master's graduate who co-wrote a C++ functional-style library under Bjarne Stroustrup, Ian also has research roots in multi-armed bandits and high-frequency trading signals from CUHK and Academia Sinica. Outside core systems work he contributes UI-focused theming to the Emacs community and runs a technical blog, reflecting a blend of deep systems engineering and thoughtful tooling/user-facing polish.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High SchoolThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
customizer10
custom-theme10
customisation10
emacs-lisp10
spacemacs9
emacs9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
doomemacs/themes
Jan 2020 - May 2021
A megapack of themes for GNU Emacs.
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 61 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on theming and color scheme adjustments within the Emacs environment. The contributions involve modifying and enhancing existing themes, including Dracula, Gruvbox, and Horizon, and adapting web-mode faces to fit the theme. The user also implemented contrast options and fixed various display issues related to color and font settings. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to highlight specific elements such as brackets, lines, and mini-buffer matches, and added support for web-mode json keys and context.
emacsgnucolorschemedoomemacs
ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
😈 A lightweight literate Emacs config with even better "better defaults". Shipped with a custom theme!
Contributions:4 releases, 221 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 2 months
emacsdistroconfigrice
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