Sarah Wang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and trading applications, currently developing OCaml-based tools for traders at Jane Street. Previously she owned the read path for flash storage at Facebook, tackling latency-sensitive challenges across massively scalable HDD/SSD systems. She brings systems-level C++ expertise and hands-on contributions to open-source tooling—having implemented and refined RegExp and minification plugins in the babel/minify project. Based in New York, she combines a pragmatic focus on efficiency and reliability with a hobbyist’s curiosity (she likes coding and playing video games), which surfaces in thoughtful, performance-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
:scissors: An ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain (beta)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 43 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed extensively to the `babel/minify` repository, specifically focusing on enhancing and refining the `babel-plugin-transform-regexp-constructors` plugin. They implemented the plugin, added it to the Babel preset, and addressed various issues related to RegExp literal handling, including improving escaping, prettification, and extending it to RegExp calls. The user also worked on the `transform-remove-undefined` plugin and made related fixes and optimizations.
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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