Angela Yu
Growth Product Manager at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAngela Yu is a Growth Product Manager and former Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience building bridges between business, engineering, and design. Based in Palo Alto, she specializes in IoT, maps, and immersive experiences—recently exploring AR/VR/MR interfaces that surface IoT data in intuitive, spatial ways. Angela combines hands-on front-end and mobile development (notably contributing UI improvements to widely used Google Maps samples for both web and Android) with product strategy and developer advocacy. Her background spans startup founding, engineering management for IoT platforms, and marketing leadership, giving her a rare blend of technical depth and go-to-market savvy. Colleagues describe her as someone who thinks visually and prototypes quickly to validate product ideas at the intersection of hardware, voice/video, and spatial UX.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS EE/CS, BS EE/CS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNanodegree Candidate Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree Candidate Full Stack Web Developer at UdacityiOS Bootcamp Fall Session Mobile App Development, iOS Bootcamp Fall Session Mobile App Development at CodePath
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
javascript10
css10
java10
javas10
android10
google-map10
google-maps10
html10
maps10
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
api6
google-places-api6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps-samples/android-samples
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Samples demonstrating how to use Maps SDK for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:256 reviews, 1 commit, 240 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Angela primarily focused on updating and maintaining Android sample applications for the Google Maps SDK. Their work involved migrating existing code to utilize the latest Maps and Places SDKs. They also made various updates and refactorings in sample code for features like current place details, map styling, and working with polylines and polygons. Furthermore, the user addressed build-related issues and incorporated region tags into the samples.
android-mapsandroid-samplesandroidsdkkotlin
googlemaps/js-samples
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Samples for the Google Maps JavaScript v3 API
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 6 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Angela primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of Google Maps JavaScript API samples. Their contributions involved refactoring and enhancing the places autocomplete samples, including updates to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files to implement new features and improve the user experience. They also incorporated features like the 45-degree map view within the store locator sample, reflecting an emphasis on UI and interactive enhancements. Furthermore, the user's work involved incorporating new functionalities and design elements for the address form example.
apigooglemapsapi-v3googlejavascript
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