Hung Dang is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience building recommendation systems and AI/ML products, currently shaping Reddit’s core recommender efforts after leading central recommendation initiatives at ByteDance and Amazon. He blends a strong technical foundation—evident from hands-on full-stack and mobile open-source contributions in Flutter, Android, iOS, and blockchain—with product leadership that spans integrations, platform features, and production ML systems. His background includes shipping critical features like cancel/retry for Flutter Downloader and advanced UI/customization work on popular community plugins, showing an uncommon mix of low-level engineering fluency and strategic product thinking. An MIT Sloan MBA and NUS engineering alumnus based in Seattle, he is comfortable navigating large-scale platform tradeoffs and quickly prototyping cross-platform solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at National University of Singapore
A package provides an easy way to add shimmer effect in Flutter project
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 33 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hung primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the shimmer effect within the Flutter project. They added new features like the 'direction' property and implemented a new default constructor to improve the shimmer effect's customization. Moreover, the user updated the example application, and integrated with Travis-CI. The user also refactored the code using ShaderMaskLayer, and addressed the issue of missing update shimmer direction.
Flutter Downloader - A plugin for creating and managing download tasks.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:201 commits, 63 PRs, 165 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Hung implemented and integrated the cancel and retry features within the Flutter Downloader plugin, primarily impacting the Android platform. They added code to handle HTTP headers, improving the download capabilities and flexibility. Furthermore, the user addressed critical bugs related to download failures on Android API 26 and correctly saving video files to public storage, enhancing the plugin's stability and user experience.
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