Kubernetes scheduling and quota accounting · Observability · Cloud-native telecom
Nephio Technical Steering Committee member (LF Networking). Maintainer of M5Stack Platforms in upstream Zephyr. Research assistant at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
| CNCF DevStats | 1,779 |
| Merged upstream | 99 pull requests across 46 projects. 80 of them in 40 CNCF-hosted and Kubernetes-ecosystem repositories. |
| Governance | Nephio TSC member, LF Networking (roster) |
| Maintainer | M5Stack Platforms in upstream Zephyr, status: maintained (MAINTAINERS.yml) |
| Community | Organizer of the O-RAN in B5G/6G track at COSCUP · I give technical talks in Taiwanese (Tâi-gí) |
Every merged contribution, listed and linked: open-source portfolio
Figures as of 13 July 2026. The DevStats link is live and will be ahead of the number above.
I audit Dynamic Resource Allocation for arithmetic and lifecycle bugs. It began with an int64 overflow in quota accounting, which I reported in kueue#12896, fixed across four merged pull requests, then found and fixed in Volcano.
The audit has since reached Kubernetes core. I reported a counter-cache collision between DRA drivers in #140434 and fixed it in #140435, merged with a release note.
Still under review: two more core pull requests and four core issues, a slice-bounds panic in CNCF container-device-interface, a nil dereference in KubeVirt, and quota-accounting problems in KAI-Scheduler.
I want to help more people cross from using cloud native software to contributing to it: newcomer sessions in Mandarin and Taiwanese, and bilingual contribution walkthroughs drawn from real review threads. I completed LFC102 (Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation) in July 2026.
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Raised in a fishing village in Dapeng Bay, Pingtung. I care about making technical communities easier to enter, especially for people who do not start with an established professional network or English-first resources.