Phillip Pan
Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Pan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile and native platform features, currently working at Meta on the React team after earlier contributions to Messenger. He specializes in iOS and low-level integrations, having contributed to the widely used open-source React Native project to improve UIColor parsing, screen-scaling APIs, native text input, push notification handling, and memory-management hygiene. Based in Menlo Park and trained at UT Austin in Computer Science, Phillip blends production-grade engineering with platform-focused problem solving. He has a track record of shipping subtle but impactful native improvements that make cross-platform abstractions more robust and performant. Known for tackling internals and cleanup work that reduces technical debt, he helps keep large frameworks maintainable as they evolve.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
api-design9
uikit9
memory-management9
computer-engineering8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:53 reviews, 44 commits, 190 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the iOS-specific codebase of React Native, focusing on low-level improvements and API refinements. Their work included integrating with the `UIColor` API to parse platform colors, introducing new APIs for screen scaling, and enhancing the native text input and push notification management. They also made changes related to memory management and internal framework cleanup.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
philIip/react-native
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
A framework for building native apps with React.
Contributions:728 pushes, 174 branches in 3 years 4 months
react-nativenative-appsreactredux
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