Yingwei Fan
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYingwei Fan is a seasoned iOS-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building production apps and platform components, currently at Google in Mountain View. With a M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Drexel and a background in C++/Python systems, he blends low-level performance thinking with polished Objective-C and Swift UI work. He has shipped a consumer iOS app end-to-end and contributed to the widely used material-components-ios library, improving accessibility, test coverage, and tab bar behavior. His career spans international roles at Google Japan and embedded/server projects in medical and mapping domains, reflecting a pragmatic balance of product-minded engineering and rigorous implementation. Colleagues benefit from his knack for surfacing subtle layout and accessibility bugs that most UI engineers miss.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Communication Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong UniversityMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering, 3.71, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering, 3.71 at Drexel University
Github Skills (9)
material-design10
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
ui-components10
interface-design9
snapshot-testing9
unit-testing9
accessibility8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
material-components/material-components-ios
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 27 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yingwei primarily contributed to the Material Design UI components for iOS, focusing on the `MDCTabBarViewItemView` and related components. Their work involved implementing unit and snapshot tests, exposing the `iconImageView` and `titleLabel` for easier customization, and adding accessibility traits for improved usability. The user also added functionality like tap support and delegate methods to manage user selection within the `MDCTabBarView`. Finally, the user addressed layout issues within the `MDCTabBarViewItemView`, improving visual presentation.
objective-cmaterial-componentsmaterialmaintenance-modecustomizable
mikefan1991/grpc
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Contributions:45 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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