Melissa Liu
Software Engineer, React Components at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Liu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building robust front-end systems and web infrastructure, currently developing cross web/native React components for Meta products like Facebook, Instagram, and MetaAI. She has driven features across Messenger (expressions, AI stickers, encryption) and contributed notable open-source tooling such as StyleX—adding lint rules and autofix behaviors that improve developer ergonomics for large-scale UI codebases. Comfortable across web infra and playful web games, she blends a strong engineering discipline with a knack for developer experience improvements. A University of Waterloo-trained biomedical engineer by background, she brings analytical rigor to front-end problems and a persistent curiosity evidenced by active GitHub work and a quirky “internet dwelling” presence.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Biomedical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
css10
javascript10
eslint10
react10
jestjs9
babel-core9
jes9
jtest9
babel69
babeljs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/stylex
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
StyleX is the styling system for ambitious user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 90 PRs, 241 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Melissa's contributions focused on enhancing the StyleX styling system for ambitious user interfaces. They implemented new lint rules to validate and enforce correct usage of shorthands, specifically for margin, padding, outline, and border properties. The user also added autofixing capabilities for logical properties and horizontal/vertical padding/margins, improving developer experience. Furthermore, they worked on the StyleX file extension rule, ensuring proper file naming conventions.
dzhang676/OpenDoor
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
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