Alvin Wang
Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Wang is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building full‑stack, developer-friendly platforms and UX-driven products. He co-created the Materialize JS/CSS framework (38.9k stars, millions of installs) and has a strong track record of shipping reusable component frameworks and microfrontend architectures at scale for companies like Uber and Glassdoor. As a founding engineer at Watershed Bio he designed a distributed compute platform for DNA sequencing and pioneered a low-code UI that became a top product differentiator. He later led engineering at Watershed Informatics and now drives platform work at Amplitude, blending product sensitivity with systems-level architecture. Known for mentoring teams and improving developer experience, he brings a rare mix of front-end craftsmanship and distributed systems know-how rooted in an HCI background from Carnegie Mellon.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems / Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems / Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
css10
css-frameworks10
front-end-development10
javascript9
html9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Dogfalo/materialize
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1665 commits, 484 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alvin focused on improving the Materialize CSS Framework by adding new features and refactoring existing ones. They addressed UI issues related to dropdown arrow styling and improved the appearance of the form inputs by adding styling for read-only states. Their contributions extended to the addition of a new style for the "filled-in" checkboxes, including styling for disabled states. Furthermore, the user's involvement included the improvement of the user experience for tab controls.
cssmaterial-designdesignframeworkjavascript
Dogfalo/dogfalo.github.io
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 6 pushes, 2 issues in 10 months
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