Charlotte Liang
Startup & Venture Capital Engagement Manager at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Liang is a product-oriented engineer and engagement manager at Google with 8 years of experience helping mobile app developers succeed, particularly through Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple platform support. Based in San Francisco, she pairs hands-on iOS development—contributing to firebase/quickstart-ios and the firebase-ios-sdk with updates to messaging, token handling, and modernized APIs—with startup and venture capital engagement work that connects developer needs to product strategy. Her cross-disciplinary background spans an MS and an MBA from Berkeley Haas, enabling her to translate technical tradeoffs into go-to-market decisions. Notably, she maintains practical developer empathy by keeping Firebase sample apps and SDK integrations current, reducing friction for mobile teams adopting Google tooling.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessHigh School, High School at Beijing Jingshan SchoolMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at George Mason University
Github Skills (11)
objective-c10
apn10
swift10
ios10
mobile-development10
messaging10
firebase10
firebase-messaging10
sdk9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-ios-sdk
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Firebase SDK for Apple App Development
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 308 reviews, 354 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Charlotte's commits primarily focused on modifications within the Firebase Messaging (FCM) iOS SDK. They made updates to the version information and addressed issues related to token handling, specifically related to APNs tokens. They also added properties to enable or disable auto initialization of FCM tokens, and made code changes to the handling of various notifications.
firebase-databasefirebase-functionsdatabase-as-a-serviceremote-configios
firebase/quickstart-ios
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Firebase Quickstart Samples for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Charlotte primarily focused on modifying the iOS Firebase quickstart samples. They addressed deprecated code, updated the messaging API to align with Firebase 7, and removed references to instanceID across several files. Their contributions included adding alert and badge functionality, and making various fixes to ensure the sample applications remained functional with the updated Firebase SDK. These changes appear to focus on keeping the sample applications up-to-date and working as intended.
firestorefirebaseremote-configfirebase-storageios
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