Jeff Soo
Product Design Manager at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Soo is a Product Design Manager with 17 years of experience shaping immersive and widely used consumer experiences, currently leading AI Assistant work at Facebook Reality Labs. He previously led design on Facebook’s Creation team, helping features used by over 2 billion people, and has a strong background launching camera, AR, and VR products including contributions to the original Oculus Rift and mobile VR. His cross-platform expertise spans fixed/mobile web, native apps, and connected TV, with prior work for clients like Porsche, CNN, and Red Bull and product roles at Meta, Oculus, Fox, and startup-acquired Wanderfly. Jeff combines strategic product thinking with hands-on craft—he still contributes to codebases like the PHP-based Textpattern CMS where he improved image processing and metadata handling. Trained in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, he blends rigorous HCI grounding with a practical, systems-oriented approach to design for emerging interfaces.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, BS, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Human Computer Interaction at University of Washington
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
content-management10
back-end-development10
html4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
textpattern/textpattern
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jeff's contributions primarily involve refactoring and improving the `image` and `thumbnail` tag handlers within the Textpattern CMS. The changes include consolidating logic across various image-related functions, adding error checking, implementing caching, and deprecating unused attributes. They also added attributes to the `image_author()` tag, demonstrating work on the image and related metadata handling within the CMS's tag system. These modifications focused on streamlining the image processing functionalities within the PHP-based content management system.
cmscms-frameworkmanagement-systemphpcmf
jsoo/soo_page_numbers
Jun 2009 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 10 pushes in 10 years 10 months
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