Kuan-yi Li
Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan area Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolKuan-yi Li is a versatile engineer with 12 years’ experience spanning embedded systems, networking, HPC and bioinformatics, blending physics and electronics with practical software craft. He has deep hands-on expertise in board bring-up, OpenWrt firmware/kernel work and hardware support—contributing to prominent projects like OpenWrt/ImmortalWrt by adding GPIO, NCM gadget support and cross-platform firmware fixes. His background includes bioinformatics and HPC pipeline development at Academia Sinica and NTU, plus ultrasound image processing and RF calibration for commercial products, so he moves comfortably between low-level firmware and data-driven research. Comfortable with automation and cloud services, he has built remote hardware debug tools, test frameworks and AWS-backed services while leading anti-reverse-engineering and product promotion efforts. An inquisitive maker and hacker, he documents experiments on a long-running technical blog and brings a systems-level view that often surfaces non-obvious hardware-software tradeoffs early in design.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Optics/Optical Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS), Optics/Optical Sciences at National Chiao Tung University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
firmware10
linux10
usb10
kernel-module10
linux-kernel10
makefile10
networking10
kernel10
gpio10
openwrt10
sys10
kernel-mode10
embedded10
build-system9
gadget9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Jul 2019 - Jul 2025
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 15 PRs, 44 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kuan-yi primarily contributed to the OpenWrt project by implementing and modifying kernel modules and firmware related to hardware support. Their work includes adding support for named GPIO pins in the base-files, adding a kernel module for USB Network Control Model (NCM) Gadget, and fixing compilation issues with GCC 10 in the restool package. Furthermore, the user was involved in aligning the firmware for Raspberry Pi boards by using symbolic links and consolidating NVRAM packages for Broadcom wireless chips.
openwrt
immortalwrt/immortalwrt
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kuan-yi primarily contributes to the ImmortalWrt project by adding support for various hardware components and kernel modules. Their work includes implementing named GPIO support for the base-files, adding USB Network Control Model (NCM) Gadget support, and fixing compilation issues related to GCC 10 within the restool package. They also work on firmware configuration for Broadcom wireless chips, consolidating and managing the NVRAM packages, along with providing firmware options for Raspberry Pi.
openwrt
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