About
Hi there,
My name is Fang-Pen Lin. I am a one-person-army software engineer.
I taught myself programming since I was 12 by building a hobby MMORPG from scratch 7 times. It has been twenty years since I started programming. In twenty years, I spent almost every single day in programming. You can get a sense of it by looking at my GitHub history in the recent ten years:
These are just the part on GitHub. Yep, I heard what you say, you probably have no life. Well, yeah, maybe I am actually a robot sitting behind the screen 😂
In the past, I’ve been working on software projects in very different fields, be it games, GUI apps, large scale networking servers, web backend servers, front-end websites, mobile apps, embedded system, DevOps and even security. For example, recently, I found and disclosed a critical security bug CVE-2019-13132 in ZeroMQ. You can also check out some of my works.
By one-person-army, it means I am not limiting myself by any particular tool, language or fields. I learn new things quickly, focus on solving the problem, and can leverage different available open source tools to build different ends of software products in a vast range of aspects: mobile to web, client to server, single node to cluster, development to devops, prototype to production and user experience to security.
Oh, besides building software, I also like writing. I love to share the lessons I’ve learned from building software. I am also authoring a book about building software engineer career from the ground up. Hope you enjoy my articles, feedbacks are welcome 😊
🚀 Hire me
Do you have awesome software product ideas you would like to build? Do you need a great software engineer with over 20 years of experience on your team to help with different software projects? You are in the right place! As a one-person-army software engineer, I can build variants of software products from the ground up. Front-end Engineer, Backend-Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Mobile Engineer, it will be very expensive to hire all of them, and the communication would be challenging. But if you hire me, I am the only person you need to talk to, and I can do all of it by myself. See some of my works here to get an idea of how wide the scope I can cover. Please get in touch with me via the following email if you are interested in the software development contracting service I provide:
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