Michelle Tang
Software Engineer at Signal Messenger
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Tang is a software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building reliable mobile and backend systems, currently contributing to Signal Messenger in Palo Alto. She has shipped production Android and iOS features at scale—maintaining a 99.92% crash-free Android app and improving Signal iOS message processing and group-call handling. Her background spans full-stack web work, real-time feed systems, OTP/auth infrastructure, and ML-powered photo clustering, reflecting comfort across client, server, and data pipelines. Michelle started as a tutor and web-app developer at NYU, which informs her pragmatic, test-focused approach to engineering and mentoring. An active contributor on GitHub (personal handle @mlinington), she combines startup agility with production-grade reliability and a knack for turning awkward edge cases (timestamps, resend flows, push failures) into robust behavior.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at New York UniversityStuyvesant High School
Github Skills (8)
swift10
ios10
objective-c9
data-structure5
datastructures-algorithms5
algorithms5
algorithm5
data-structures5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-iOS
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
A private messenger for iOS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 1507 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michelle's contributions focus on enhancing the functionality of the Signal iOS application by including a group ID with resent messages. This involves modifying the `TSOutgoingMessage` and `OWSOutgoingResendResponse` classes in the SignalServiceKit. The user is also contributing to the processing of messages by adding a log message and ensuring that sender key distribution messages are always preprocessed. Furthermore, the user has made adjustments to handle incorrect timestamps and improve the handling of group call notifications.
ios
signalapp/libPhoneNumber-iOS
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
iOS port from libphonenumber (Google's phone number handling library)
Contributions:11 reviews, 7 comments in 1 day
ioslibphonenumber
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