Hi! I am Chris, originally from Hong Kong, now living in the UK. I am a Rust Software Engineer. I am the founder of SeaQL.org, best known for developing SeaORM . I am committed to open source and developer toolings, now focusing on FireDBG . I am looking to meet potential co-founders who are also dedicated to improving developer experience.
Open source is my north star. I published my first computer graphics library on GitHub when I was 18 years old. At 27 years old, I quit my job and poured all the money I have and founded Vision Cortex, best known for developing VTracer . Later I discovered a niche in the Rust ecosystem, so we pivoted and started working on SeaQL.
SeaQL won the OpenUK Awards 2023 in the Software category.
I believe in open-source software. Collaborating on open source development represents humanity’s most remarkable technological progress. Open-source encapsulates our collective wisdom and embodies our shared commitment to tackle problems beyond our individual capacities—whether those of a person or a company. It's the best thing we can leave for posterity.
Creating open-source software isn’t easy, and funding an organisation can be hard. I continue to search for better ways to fund, build and grow open-source projects, and to invite more people into this community.
Maintainer burnout is a real issue. As a maintainer I felt the grind everyday. I rely on a glimpse of hope in which the industry is becoming more supportive to community-driven open source (as opposed to corporate-driven); and that we can eventually stumble upon a way to make open source sustainable.
I am not in academia, but I am glad to have been cited for my work. My interest includes computer graphics, computational geometry, real-time programming, compilers / debuggers and software engineering techniques.
- A Momentum Function Description and Tessellation Method for Polyline
- Drawing Lines is Hard
- Drawing Antialiased Lines with OpenGL
- SKILL 2023 Framework to Vectorize Digital Artworks for Physical Fabrication based on Geometric Stylization Techniques
- arXiv 2023 Image Vectorization: a Review
- arXiv 2023 StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images
- arXiv 2024 Text-Based Reasoning About Vector Graphics
- arXiv 2024 Delving into LLMs' visual understanding ability using SVG to bridge image and text
Not yet?
My personal GitHub Sponsor profile is up! You can sponsor my journey in search of a sustainable open source model. And probably we can have some good talks on Computer Science and Philosophy.