Zhongyujie Wu
User Experience Designer at Alibaba Group
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolZhongyujie Wu is a User Experience Designer and interaction specialist with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning industrial design, architecture, new media art, and mobile engineering. Currently pursuing an MFA in Interaction Design at SCAD and based in Beijing, he couples a designer’s sensibility with deep iOS engineering chops from contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Flutter, React Native, SDWebImage, and Tencent’s MMKV and WCDB. At Alibaba YOUKU he blends product-facing UX work with low-level mobile optimization—his OSS record shows repeated fixes for memory leaks, image performance, and platform-specific bugs that improve reliability at scale. He leads concept-to-prototype initiatives (including AR/VR and aviation UX research with Gulfstream) and is comfortable both sketching user journeys and digging into Objective-C/Swift runtime issues. Curious by nature and self-described as a thinker, he treats design as continuous learning and seeks meaning in the interaction between people and systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Interactive Design and Game Development, GPA 4.0, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Interactive Design and Game Development, GPA 4.0 at Savannah College of Art and DesignBachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Design, GPA 3.16, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Design, GPA 3.16 at Donghua University
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Github Skills (67)
imagecaching10
mobile-development10
image-processing10
ui-components10
databases10
webp10
db-schema10
file-cache10
schema10
object-cache10
memory-management10
schema-design10
autolayout10
uid10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SDWebImage/SDWebImage
May 2018 - May 2019
Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:123 commits, 102 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zhongyujie primarily focused on optimizing and improving the SDWebImage library. Their contributions included refactoring and optimizing code for performance, such as removing unnecessary code and optimizing existing functions. They also addressed critical issues like fixing HTTP header handling, correcting typos, and resolving race conditions within the image prefetcher. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the codebase by adding user-agent for different platforms.
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MessageKit/MessageKit
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 137 commits, 101 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Zhongyujie primarily contributed to the iOS application's UI and layout, focusing on enhancing the user experience. Their work included fixing layout issues within the `MessageInputBar` and other views, resolving content size ambiguities, and addressing keyboard-related problems. They also made several adjustments to the display of messages and the handling of tap gestures within the message cells, ensuring a smoother user experience. Further, they optimized the performance of the app by refactoring code and removing unnecessary elements.
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