Wenson Hsieh
Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenson Hsieh is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building and refining browser and platform features at Apple, currently contributing to WebKit’s Platform Experience team. He has deep front-end and rendering expertise—shipping fixes and enhancements to text selection, edit menus, snap points, and touch interactions across iOS and macOS. His work blends low-level C++/Objective-C systems programming with practical web-platform UX improvements, informed by an early research background in graph analysis and visualization. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he’s an active contributor to the WPEWebKit downstream port and is known for quietly removing friction in web interactions (for example, eliminating the iOS click delay for compatible viewports).
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Overall GPA: 3.86, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Overall GPA: 3.86 at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (13)
uid10
ios10
front-end-development10
webkit9
testing9
ui-design9
user-interface8
interface-design8
webengine7
webbrowser7
javascript7
c-language6
cprogramming-language6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit
Jun 2014 - Oct 2022
WPE WebKit port (downstream)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1903 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wenson primarily contributed to the WebKit browser engine, focusing on the iOS platform. The commits involved fixing bugs and refactoring code related to user interactions such as text selection, double-tap, context menu actions, and element focus within web views, specifically addressing issues with the edit menu and text input functionality in iOS. They also worked on code improvements related to handling images in image analysis.
wpedownstreamwebkit
whsieh/qwop-ai
Aug 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 years
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