Vincent Huang
Senior Software Engineer - L5 at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVincent Huang is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta with 13 years of experience building internal data experiences and analytics tooling, currently focused on privacy and backend validation for the Onyx team. A University of Waterloo double-major in Computer Science and Statistics, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic software engineering from internships at Meta, Snap, and Wish to full-time roles. He has shipped core frameworks for internal analytics platforms and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like React Native, improving iOS pointer and touch behaviors for better mobile UX. Vincent's background spans data science, payments infrastructure, and machine learning for supply chain optimization, giving him a rare cross-functional perspective on data quality, reliability, and product-facing systems. Colocated in San Francisco, he’s equally comfortable iterating on low-level platform code and translating privacy requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Agincourt Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Double Major, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Double Major at University of Waterloo
Chinese, French, English
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Github Skills (13)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
pointer-events10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
uid9
graphql6
graphql-js6
nodejs6
javascript6
relayjs6
swift5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:55 commits, 25 PRs, 7 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of React Native, making improvements to the UI and handling of pointer events. They updated the iOS RNTester header to utilize `SafeAreaView` for improved display on newer iPhones. Further work involved refining the pointer event handling logic by implementing essential features such as button tracking, the "click" event with related behavior (e.g. only triggering clicks within the same view tree) and improving how pointer events are dispatched to enhance the overall responsiveness and accuracy of touch and pointer interactions within React Native applications.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
vincentriemer/react-native-dom
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
An experimental, comprehensive port of React Native to the web.
Contributions:537 commits, 26 PRs, 103 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactnativewebworkersui-frameworkreact-native
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