Annie Wang
Head Of Product Engineering at Vise
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnnie Wang is a product engineering leader with 10 years of hands-on experience building user-focused web platforms and developer tooling, currently heading Product Engineering at Vise in New York. She progressed through technical and managerial roles at Vise after earlier contributing to Google's Angular Components team, where she improved accessibility, documentation, and component examples for a widely used UI library. Annie blends front-end craftsmanship—demonstrated by accessibility and compact-view enhancements for Angular Material—with back-end compiler work, having added modern JS feature support to Google’s Closure Compiler. Her background from MIT in EECS and research stints in VR/AR education reflect a curiosity for interactive systems and learning-driven design. Known for shipping practical improvements that benefit other engineers and end users, she thrives at the intersection of product thinking and implementation detail.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma at Institut Le Rosey
English, Chinese, Japanese, French
Github Skills (20)
accessibility10
closure10
javascript10
component-development10
google-closure-compiler10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
polyfills10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
frontend10
angular10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
angular/material.angular.io
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Docs site for Angular Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 65 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Annie primarily contributed to the documentation site for Angular Material components. They focused on implementing a skip navigation link, which involved adding new components and modifying existing ones to improve accessibility. The user also refactored the navigation and focus management and enabled the compact view for example components. Additionally, the user added new scenes to the screenshot tests for components.
docs-siteangular-2angularangular-components
google/closure-compiler
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Annie primarily contributed to the Closure Compiler project by modifying and adding features to the core JavaScript compilation and optimization logic. Their work involved updating the type of a global variable and adding support for modern JavaScript features like `String.prototype.matchAll()` and `globalThis` by extending externs. Additionally, the user implemented a polyfill for `String.prototype.matchAll()` and made adjustments related to nullish coalescing operator integration. This suggests a focus on improving the compiler's compatibility with modern JavaScript standards and addressing specific functional enhancements.
checkerjavascriptoptimizationtypecheckingoptimizer
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