Chao Wei
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Wei is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building identity and authentication systems for Google’s iOS ecosystem, now leading iOS Identity Serving for over a billion users. He progressed from intern to senior staff by architecting client-side SSO libraries, modernizing Google Authenticator, and shaping agentic developer experiences that scale across first- and third-party apps. His work spans OpenID/OAuth/Google Sign-In/Firebase Authentication and includes practical open-source contributions to FirebaseUI-iOS focused on improving iOS auth UI and recovery flows. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends deep protocol knowledge with pragmatic UX sensibilities to deliver secure, user-friendly sign-in experiences. Trained with an M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a B.E. from Beihang University, he’s known for turning complex identity challenges into polished, production-grade tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.E., Computer Science and Technology, B.E., Computer Science and Technology at Beihang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
mobile10
uid10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
firebaseui10
firebase10
swift9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/FirebaseUI-iOS
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
iOS UI bindings for Firebase.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chao's commits primarily involve modifications within the `FirebaseUI/Auth` directory, focusing on iOS-specific UI components and interactions. These changes include updates to the view controller for authentication selection, implementing new UI elements and logic for email-based sign-in, and adjusting the password recovery flow. The contributions center around user interface enhancements, improving the user experience and aligning with the project's goal of providing iOS UI bindings for Firebase authentication.
firebaseiosfirestoreios-ui
ch40w31/ch40w31.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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