Joy Zhong
Founder & Software Engineer at Self-employed
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJoy Zhong is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade web platforms and leading front-end engineering at Google on Material Web. She founded and scaled a consumer beauty app to over one million users, owning engineering, UX, product strategy, and marketing end-to-end. At Google she led Material Design component work—refactoring accessible, touch-friendly icon buttons, dialogs, menus and sliders—and contributed tests and cross-browser fixes that improved robustness for a widely used design system. Based in the New York City metro area with a Dartmouth CS background, she combines product-driven thinking with deep UI engineering craft and a knack for shipping polished, accessible interfaces. An uncommon strength is her track record of moving between high-scale corporate projects and solo startup execution, delivering both developer-facing libraries and consumer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (19)
accessibility10
lit-element10
javascript10
testing10
css10
web-components10
webui10
material-design10
front-end-development10
component-kit8
component-model8
component-diagram8
component-development8
ui-design8
component-based8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
material-components/material-components-web
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 284 commits, 252 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Joy focused on implementing and refactoring Material Design UI components for the web. They made significant changes to the dialog, menu, and slider components. The user also added tests for the checkbox and radio foundations and components. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to browser behavior in handling navigation and accessibility enhancements.
reactmaterial-componentsmaterialcssjavascript
material-components/material-web
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Material Design Web Components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 61 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joy primarily contributed to the development of Material Design Web Components within the `material-components/material-web` repository. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing existing components, specifically focusing on icon buttons, icon button toggles, and link icon buttons. This included adding support for slotted icons, aria-label attributes, and whitespace removal. They also introduced new features like filled icon button variants and the implementation of the increased touch target.
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