Erick Chang
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErick Chang is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading mobile and media platforms across top-tier tech companies, currently heading Media Ingestion & Serving at Airbnb. He previously led UI Foundations for Messenger at Meta, bringing product-focused design system and information architecture improvements to Android and iOS. Erick’s hands-on background in Android (notably contributions to the popular material-calendarview library) and prior roles at Instagram and Uber give him a rare combination of deep mobile UI expertise and systems-level thinking for media performance. Early roles in engineering and even chemical engineering at Pfizer reflect his methodical, process-oriented approach to complex problems. He’s known for balancing technical ownership with team coaching to ship polished, performant consumer experiences at scale. Based in New York, he blends open-source craftsmanship with leadership that drives cross-platform consistency.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
material-design10
android10
java10
material-components10
ui-design9
deserialization6
gson6
scrollview6
android-recyclerview6
android-viewpager6
android-fragments6
retrofit6
android-layout6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prolificinteractive/material-calendarview
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
A Material design back port of Android's CalendarView
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 71 commits, 52 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily worked on the UI components and core functionality of the Android Material Calendar View library. They optimized the selection bounds calculation within the `DayView` class and finalized the ripple effects implementation for different API levels. The contributions include bug fixes related to ripple effects across different Android versions and general code cleanup and refactoring. These changes aimed to improve the visual appearance and the user experience of the calendar view.
calendarmaterialandroidcalendarviewmaterial-design
ekchang/ekchang.github.io
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 55 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
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