Ying Zhang
Engineering Manager at People Inc.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Zhang is an experienced engineering manager and principal engineer with 15 years building high-traffic web platforms, now overseeing frontend and backend technical work for major media properties like Allrecipes and Meredith. She began as a teenage web designer and evolved into a Java and Node.js specialist with deep expertise in Spring, Hibernate, Drupal, and modern frontend stacks including responsive HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. At Meredith she led the Digital Experience team, steering a single-platform frontend in Node/Express and shifting to Drupal for backend orchestration while still shipping polished frontend experiences for sites like parents.com. Currently at People Inc., she’s moving large-scale sites toward Nuxt3 in production, blending performance-driven architecture with UX-first design. An active open-source contributor, Ying has improved PHP tooling such as feature additions to Facebook’s Instant Articles SDK, demonstrating attention to cross-stack integration and test-driven changes. Outside work she continues to design and publish free WordPress themes, keeping a long-standing creative thread in her engineering practice.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
php10
html8
ivy6
jquery-plugin6
eclipse6
smartphone6
jquery6
apache6
maskedinput6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/facebook-instant-articles-sdk-php
May 2016 - Jun 2016
The Facebook Instant Articles SDK for PHP provides a native interface for creating and publishing Instant Articles.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Ying primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to vertical alignment within the Facebook Instant Articles SDK for PHP. This involved modifying existing classes like `Caption` and `Cite`, introducing new constants, and adding methods to support vertical alignment options. The user also created and updated relevant unit tests to ensure the correct rendering of the new functionality. This work directly enhances the functionality and flexibility of the SDK.
publishingphpsdkfacebookfacebook-api
dodozhang21/MockitoExamples
May 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:28 commits in 1 month
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