Jia Huang
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJia Huang is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building product-focused software and leading engineering teams across startups and larger tech firms. Now at Airbnb after a multi-year tenure as a tech lead and manager at Niantic, Jia blends hands-on engineering with people leadership to ship scalable front-end and system features. Earlier roles as a cofounder and at robotics and civic-tech companies show a strong hardware-adjacent and product-minded background grounded in an ECE degree from Olin. An active open-source contributor, Jia has enhanced front-end data-visualization tooling such as the d3-timeline plugin, adding polished UI behaviors like hover effects and improved axis handling. Known for translating design-forward interfaces into robust implementations, Jia brings both startup grit and enterprise delivery experience to complex, user-facing projects.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (4)
html10
d3js10
javascript10
css8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jiahuang/d3-timeline
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Simple JS timeline plugin for d3
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jia primarily contributed to the front-end development of the d3-timeline plugin. Their commits focused on modifying and enhancing the example HTML file to showcase different features and functionalities of the timeline, including adding options for circles, stacked timelines, hover effects, and relative timepoints. The user also updated the core d3-timeline.js file, adding features such as showTimeAxisTick and fixing issues related to rotating tick marks and deprecated id usage.
timeline-plugintimeline
jiahuang/dota2builds
May 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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