Ruoyu Zhong
Lead Maintainer at Homebrew
Singapore
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Top SchoolRuoyu Zhong is a software engineer focused on the intersection of cybersecurity and systems engineering, currently pursuing a Master of Computing in Infocomm Security at the National University of Singapore. With six years of experience and a background in computer science (Highest Distinction) from Nanyang Technological University, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering. He is an active open-source maintainer and serves as Lead Maintainer of Homebrew, meaning many macOS/Linux users have likely run his work when installing software. His contributions span low-level systems work—such as Mach-O-specific improvements to the popular mold linker—and secure software design, reflecting a blend of systems-level detail and security-minded architecture. Based in Singapore, Ruoyu is motivated by curiosity and collaboration, and he emphasizes clean, test-covered code as a path to elegant, secure systems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (Highest Distinction) Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (Highest Distinction) Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics at Nanyang Technological University SingaporeGuangzhou Foreign Language SchoolGuangdong Experimental High SchoolMaster of Computing Infocomm Security, Master of Computing Infocomm Security at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
mach-o10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
command-line-interface9
testing8
build-automation7
cmake7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
rui314/mold
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ruoyu primarily contributed to the `mold` linker, focusing on Mach-O-specific functionality. Their work involved adding and modifying command-line flags related to version information. They also added tests to cover the newly implemented version flags, and subsequently reverted the changes. Further contributions included fixing output and build configurations.
linker
ZhongRuoyu/LeetCode
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:594 commits, 607 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 1 month
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