Xuezhong Wang
Software Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXuezhong Wang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, cross-platform systems for major tech companies, currently at Meta after multi-year engineering roles at YouTube and Spirent. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering and brings a research-driven mindset to product engineering, turning complex requirements into pragmatic solutions. Xuezhong’s hands-on background spans full-stack development and low-level integration work—evidenced by open-source contributions to MyGUI where he added SDL2 cross-platform support, fixed pixel-format and input bugs, and modernized build tools. Comfortable in both research and production environments, he excels at bridging academic rigor with shipping engineering in large-scale consumer and enterprise products. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines deep systems knowledge with a knack for solving subtle interoperability issues that others often miss.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Ph.D, Industrial & Systems Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science Degrees, Bachelor of Science Degrees at South China University of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cross-platform10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
multiplatform10
sdl10
image-loading9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MyGUI/mygui
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Fast, flexible and simple GUI.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Xuezhong primarily focused on adding cross-platform support to the GUI demos, specifically integrating SDL2 and SDL2_image for windowing and image loading. They addressed pixel format conversion issues between SDL2 and MyGUI, fixing bugs in the conversion process. Additionally, the user updated CMake scripts to accommodate the new SDL2 dependencies, and adjusted editor tools by removing Windows-specific APIs. Further work included keycode mapping and non-ASCII text input fixes.
guidirectximguisimple-guiflexible
xzwang2005/DX11_tutorials_with_hieroglyph3
Dec 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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