Wenying Hu
Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenying Hu is a seasoned software engineer with 20+ years of experience building large-scale, user-facing systems and cloud tooling, currently at Meta after a long tenure in Visual Studio and Cloud & AI at Microsoft and a staff role at Flexport. Skilled in C#, C++, Java, SQL, OOD and data structures, she combines deep systems-level expertise with product-focused collaboration, regularly partnering with PMs to translate requirements into reliable features. She has mentored junior engineers and driven architectural improvements that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability. An active contributor to tooling reliability, she improved Microsoft’s Visual Studio uninstaller by refactoring static-state bugs, adding unit test scaffolding, and implementing robust post-uninstall cleanup. Based in Redmond, she brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that balances rigorous testing with shipping impact for millions of users. Colleagues know her for tackling thorny cleanup and stability issues that others avoid.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaLangara College
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
develop9
filesystem8
fileio8
file-operations8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Visual Studio Uninstallation sometimes can be unreliable and often leave out a lot of unwanted artifacts. Visual Studio Uninstaller is designed to thoroughly and reliably remove these unwanted artifacts.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 61 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Wenying primarily contributed to the project by modifying existing code to improve the reliability of the Visual Studio uninstaller. They refactored the codebase, addressing issues with static variables to ensure multiple SKUs could be installed correctly. Additionally, the user added unit test templates and updated data files to improve the overall functionality and stability of the uninstaller. Further modifications included implementing post-uninstall cleanup procedures, such as deleting registry keys and cache folders.
visual-studio
tobyhu87/opencv
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Open Source Computer Vision Library
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonvisioncomputer-visionc-plus-plusimage-processing
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