William Liang
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Liang is a Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience building web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, and SQL. He currently ships front-end and full-stack features at Bloomberg after roles at CNN Business, 1stdibs, and startups where he focused on polished, production-ready interfaces. An active contributor to the popular open-source Jitsi Meet project, he has improved multi-stream screen-sharing UX and video quality—showing a knack for real-time media front-end challenges. Trained at App Academy and with a B.S. in Health Science, he blends rigorous web engineering discipline with a pragmatic, user-centered approach to complex UI problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
App AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Health Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Health Science at Stony Brook University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
jitsi-meet10
javascript10
webrtc10
video-conferencing10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
css8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jitsi-meet
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 25 commits, 19 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:William's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Jitsi Meet application. They implemented features related to multi-stream support, including the addition of a fake participant tile for screen shares, and optimized video quality for screen sharing. The user also worked on fixing bugs related to screen sharing, and improved the display of participant names, all within the front-end codebase. Furthermore, they refactored existing code related to video receiver constraints.
jitsi-meetwebrtcsfuvideovideo-conferencing
bloomberg/lib-jitsi-meet
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Bloomberg's collaboration fork of lib-jitsi-meet
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
jitsi-meet
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