Alex Wang Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

iOS developer working on Messenger and Meta AI

San Francisco, California, Us

- Main developer on the Perplexity AI iOS app, implementing core features on both the UI/UX and infrastructure aspects with SwiftUI, UIKit, CoreData, and WebSockets.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Implemented versioning of course items so instructors can view changes between each iteration for videos, readings, assessments, and other course items.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

One of four iOS developers on the Mobile Learning Experience team for the Coursera iOS app, seen by tens of thousands of users daily.- Led the rewrite of the quiz and assessments experience to use CoreData and improved page load times by 2x, while increasing developer efficiency by making the feature more easily extendable and maintainable.- Headed the project to render rich text in-app quickly and reliably from Coursera’s own markup language using WKWebViews and JavaScript. Worked with the backend teams to migrate to using HTML so rendering logic can be simplified on both iOS and Android.- Created new interviewing processes and guidelines for mobile developers to focus more on practical experience on iOS and Android with small take-home projects over standard whiteboarding questions.- Implemented a streamlined learner dashboard so users can easily and quickly glance through their progress and continue with course items- Support Coursera's online degrees on the mobile platform by making it more discoverable while maintaining an engaging and stable experience whether the user is online or offline - Led the process of migrating the iOS code base from Swift 3 to Swift 4.2

Mountain View, Ca, Us

iOS developer on the Learning Experience team for the Coursera iOS app, seen by tens of thousands of users daily. Worked a large number of features in Swift including:- Lead on redesigning and implementing the mobile course experience, including the course outline and discussion forums, resulting in a 5-10x speedup in loading time as well as increased user engagement- Designed and implemented a GraphQL client on the data networking layer, which reduces the number requests made by a view from dozens to one or two- Led the team on migrating the iOS codebase from Swift 2 to Swift 3- Overhauled a script that automates in-app purchase submissions to Apple's iTunesConnect to verify and submit newly published courses and specializations, cutting the time required by 3 hours- Main developer on supporting peer review assessments on mobile- Migrated webview components to render natively for over an 10x speedup in performance for readings and other text-based components- Created reusable and visually delightful UI goodies such as stretchable table headers and onboarding animations

- Founded, developed, and managed a website and a music game, Notedrop that averages 2000 unique visitors a month and has over 230,000 plays. (http://notedrop.chromatiqa.org) (2010 – present)- Created a web application for a social network with PHP and jQuery for sharing pictures and ratings of food for Stanford’s Introduction to Human Computer Interaction course. Currently developing an iOS port of the application. (http://nibbler.chromatiqa.org) (2012)- Prototyped a new visually-rich Twitter experience for iOS in Objective-C (2014)

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Mobile backend engineer- Improved the speed of sharing businesses and reviews on Yelp by 5x by migrating requests to the Open Graph Object API- Extended mobile metrics for more specific and improved tracking of devices

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

iOS developer on the Yahoo News Digest application- Worked as one of the first developers, rapidly prototyping and shipping the app six months later - Implemented the daily digest and article views in Objective-C with performant and reusable information cards (e.g. slideshows, maps, related Tweets)- Worked closely with designers on UI and UX design to make the app a winner of the 2014 Apple Design Award

- Designed and developed a complete iOS application for Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital for patient registration, cancellation, doctor lookup, and other features optimized for the iPhone and iPad- Learned about the framework of KMUH's IPD-2 (In-patient Department Orders) and KMUH's Electronic Prescription Services in order to improve efficiency and accuracy of patient care and medicine prescriptions- Knowledge of office and hospital business culture and practices in Taiwan

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Studied and worked on stem cells research in Professor Christopher K. Zarin’s laboratory under the guidance of Oscar J. Abilez, M.D. Studied how levels of BMP-4, C-KIT, and KDR change over time as human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiate into cardiomyocytes. (2011 and 2010 summer)

Dual Degree: B.S. In Computer Science And B.A. In Music, Human Computer Interaction, Piano Performance

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