Rachel Kang
Product Manager VS Copilot & Visual Studio Accessibility at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Kang is a product manager at Microsoft with nine years of experience blending hands-on mobile engineering and product strategy, currently leading adoption and accessibility for VS Copilot in Visual Studio. She previously drove .NET MAUI platform and tools strategy after several years contributing directly to MAUI/Xamarin codebases—shipping Android/iOS accessibility fixes, RTL support, and bindings for Apple SDKs in dotnet/macios. Her background spans engineering roles at Google (assistive tech research for Project Euphonia), internships at Capital One and Cisco, and product leadership on consumer apps, giving her a rare mix of AI product activation, platform engineering, and accessibility expertise. Based in Washington, D.C., she champions IDE-wide accessibility standards while accelerating AI in developer tools, and her open-source work shows a practical focus on making cross-platform UI frameworks more accessible and robust.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
AIT Budapest Study Abroad Program, AIT Budapest Study Abroad Program at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Harvard UniversitySyosset High SchoolScience Honors Program, Science Honors Program at Columbia University
Korean, Spanish, English, Hungarian
Github Skills (31)
accessibility10
unit-testing10
debug10
ios10
maccatalyst10
maui10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
ui-design10
net-maui10
asp-net10
xcode10
xamarin-forms10
android10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/maui
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:360 reviews, 109 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on improving the Android implementation of the .NET MAUI framework. They addressed a bug related to the `textAllCaps` property in Android, improved various controls, and added unit tests. They also worked on RTL (Right-to-Left) support for labels, formatted text, and line heights, ensuring proper rendering and alignment. Their contributions include code refactoring, test enhancements, and addressing various UI/UX issues specific to the Android platform.
app-platformmauimulti-platformiosmicrosoft
xamarin/XamarinCommunityToolkit
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
The Xamarin Community Toolkit is a collection of Animations, Behaviors, Converters, and Effects for mobile development with Xamarin.Forms. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building iOS, Android, and UWP apps with Xamarin.Forms.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on enhancing accessibility features within the Xamarin Community Toolkit, particularly regarding semantic effects. They modified Android and iOS specific code, implementing APIs for semantic focus and announcement functionalities. Key tasks included updating accessibility delegates, integrating the semantic page sample, and addressing platform-specific behaviors to improve screen reader compatibility and user experience. Additionally, they addressed a NullReferenceException in the UWP implementation.
behaviorsxamarin-community-toolkituwpmaccatalystmobile-development
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