Soe Lynn
Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoe Lynn is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in mobile and front-end engineering, currently at Meta in Menlo Park. He has a strong PayPal background with progressive seniority and more recently served as Staff Software Engineer at Greenlight, combining product-focused delivery with architectural improvements. An active open-source contributor to the high-profile facebook/react-native project, his commits target UI and layout robustness—converting components to functional form, improving gap percentage support, and fixing layout inspector and image-loading bugs. Comfortable across Android and iOS, he brings practical expertise in building reliable mobile experiences and a track record of shipping component-level fixes that improve developer and user-facing behavior. He earned a Computer Science degree from Nanyang Technological University and often blends backend testing and tooling experience with front-end craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Burmese
Github Skills (8)
app-framework10
cross-platform10
mobile-development10
react-native10
react10
android9
javascript9
ios9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 reviews, 29 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Soe's commits primarily involve modifications and improvements within the React Native framework, focusing on component-level changes. Key contributions include converting `TouchableWithoutFeedback` to a functional component, deprecating RedBox access, fixing a bug with the layout inspector for `DrawerLayoutAndroid`, and implementing percentage support for gap styles. They also addressed issues in the image loading process and exposed gap percentage support to the React Native layer, showcasing a focus on UI and layout functionalities.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
realsoelynn/realsoelynn.github.io
Apr 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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