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Every system has a story. I write the subtitles.

I’m Wayne Wei, a backend engineer. Banking platforms for 2M+ users, production AI services, and open source with 690+ stars.

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00:00:01,000 → 00:00:04,200Subtitle字幕자막Sous-titresUntertitel字幕Subtítulos

00:00:04,300 → 00:00:07,900Hello你好こんにちはBonjour안녕하세요HolaCiao

00:00:08,000 → 00:00:11,500idempotent冪等latency延遲curiosity好奇心serendipity

00:00:11,600 → 00:00:15,000PythonJavaSpring BootPostgreSQLAWSDockerLLM

00:00:15,100 → 00:00:18,800把複雜留在背後Clarity明晰明晰わかりやすくReadable

Liquid glass, rendered live. Drag the lens.

6+years of engineering experience

2M+users on banking systems supported

690+GitHub stars across open source

30%lower integration maintenance costs

Small frictions, fixed in public.

Every project here began as something that felt harder than it should. Each card is a working miniature.

MEDIA · PYTHON★ 428

Subtitle Downloader

Downloads subtitles from 20+ streaming services, then cleans, converts and merges them into dual-language tracks.

Some stories need more than one language.

有些故事，需要不只一種語言。

Dual subtitles

LANGUAGE · MACOS★ 209

Apple Dictionary

Custom builds of Oxford, Merriam-Webster and Cambridge for macOS, with dark mode and offline pronunciation.

curiosity

/ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/ · noun

A strong desire to know or learn something.

“Every project here started with curiosity.”

Dark mode

LANGUAGE · PYTHON★ 6

Subtitle Tool

Converts subtitles between formats and turns Simplified Chinese into natural Traditional Chinese.

Simplified 這個軟體讓影片字幕轉換變得簡單

LEARNING · TYPESCRIPT★ 2

PassBar

Bar exam practice with custom MBE-style sets, tutor or timed sessions, and explanation reviews.

Tutor mode · Evidence

An out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted is generally:

PLAY · GAME2D platformer

SpellHop

Jump, collect letter blocks, then spell the four-letter word to cross the river. Three misses and it restarts.

Hint Glass that bends light

♥♥♥

INSIGHT · NLP見える

Mieru

Looks past the star rating to show what people actually say about food, service and atmosphere.

★★★☆☆ The ramen broth was rich and deeply flavorful, though the noodles ran a little soft. Our server was warm and quick to refill our tea. The room was cramped and loud at peak hours.

MEDIA · PYTHON★ 24

Plex Metadata

Finds synopses and posters from Netflix, Apple TV, HBO and more, and applies them to Plex.

Night Harbor2024

The Quiet Signal2023

Paper Moons2025

DATA VIZMap

Supply Chain Map

Traces Toyota parts from Japanese suppliers to plants and customers worldwide.

ALSO ON THE SHELFTicket-BotAutomated high-speed rail tickets · ★ 26 SpotLiteAspect-based restaurant recommendations WordHopperSpellHop, rebuilt in Unity More on GitHubAll repositories ↗

Built for people, proven at scale.

From banking at scale to production AI, one episode at a time.

Jan 2018 - Mar 2020 · Taipei
E.SUN Bank
Software Engineer
Collaborated with IBM on online banking for over 2 million users. Built payment integrations and a modular Web ATM CMS, and led a six-person team on a shared foreign exchange platform.
40% less development time for new systems6 months faster forex platform launch
JavaSpring BootAngularJenkins
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024 · Taipei
Independent / Freelance
Software Engineer
Designed backend systems, integrated enterprise services, and delivered cloud infrastructure and LLM-powered chatbot services.
30% lower maintenance costs15% faster end-to-end responses
PythonNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSLLM integrations
Jun - Aug 2021 · Taipei
Taipei Beitou Health Management Hospital
Business Lecturer & IT Consultant
Trained 20 medical staff to build an iOS bulletin board app. Designed medical-image processing APIs to reduce database load and improve loading performance.
40% faster image loading20 staff trained
SwiftMySQLFirebaseAPI design
2024 - 2026 · Los Angeles
University of Southern California
MS, Computer Science
Graduate study in machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing, applied to projects like Mieru and SpotLite.
ML Machine Learning · Deep LearningNLP Natural Language Processing
PyTorchNLPResearch

Always curious, always building.

Wayne Wei

/weɪn weɪ/ · noun

A backend engineer who turns complex systems into dependable, readable software.
Someone who builds a tool the moment something feels harder than it should.
informal The person behind Wayne Club: open-source projects, a homelab and far too many subtitle files.

SEE ALSO builder · translator · tinkerer

Backend & AI

PythonJavaSpring BootNode.jsREST APIsLLM integration

Data & Cloud

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBAWSGCPDockerCI/CD

Apps & Interfaces

TypeScriptAngularSwiftCSS

USC

MS, Computer Science

University of Southern California

2024 - 2026 · Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP

NCKU

BS, Computer Science & Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University

2012 - 2016

Have something worth building?

Backend systems, AI services or a tool that should exist. I’d love to hear about it.

[email protected]

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Directed by: Wayne Wei
Backend: Python, Java, Node.js
Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Docker
Subtitles: English, 繁體中文, 简体中文
Filmed in: Taipei and Los Angeles
Glass: CSS backdrop-filter & SVG displacement
Special thanks: Everyone who starred a repository

Every system has a story. I write the subtitles.

Small frictions, fixed in public.

Subtitle Downloader

Apple Dictionary

Subtitle Tool

PassBar

SpellHop

Mieru

Plex Metadata

Supply Chain Map

Built for people, proven at scale.

E.SUN Bank

Independent / Freelance

Taipei Beitou Health Management Hospital

University of Southern California

Always curious, always building.

Backend & AI

Data & Cloud

Apps & Interfaces

University of Southern California

National Cheng Kung University

Have something worth building?

Privacy & analytics

Subtitles & language