Vincent Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at OpenTable
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Zhang is a senior full‑stack software engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience and a strong passion for frontend design and progressive web standards. He has driven large-scale consumer web projects at OpenTable—helping redesign their platform, authoring core design tokens, and leading initiatives that influenced millions of users and multimillion-dollar revenue tests. His background includes full lifecycle product work at MIT (building the App Inventor gallery for 1.5M users) and startups, where he focused on performant, semantic, component-driven UIs and pragmatic frontend architecture. Known for advocating “as little design as possible,” he blends interdisciplinary design sensitivity with engineering rigor to help teams ship scalable, elegant web experiences. Unusually for a senior engineer, he explicitly narrows his focus to frontend and web UX rather than mobile or backend roles, and he writes about engineering, design, and productivity outside of work.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of San Francisco
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
MIT App Inventor Public Open Source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:123 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily worked on setting up the initial GUI for a gallery list page, focusing on creating the user interface elements. Their contributions included adding various UI components like FlowPanels, TabPanels, and labels. Furthermore, their work involved integrating new features into a gallery application, demonstrating front-end development skills within the context of the MIT App Inventor project.
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karuto/design-tokens
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
A place where OpenTable engineers and designers openly work together
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches, 6 tags in 4 years 11 months
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