About

Hey, I am Huang, Xuan (a.k.a. @huxpro). I worked on the React Team at FacebookMeta.

I considered myself as a hybrid between a software engineer specifically into the programming languages theories and implementations domain (i.e. compiler, type system, type-based formal verification, virtual machine, runtime systems, garbage collection), and a creative technologiest deeply caring about many humanistic aspects (e.g. visual, sound, interaction) in UI and HCI in general.

I also worked on the Hermes JavaScript Engine, some other projects under the Reality Labs (Research), and ReasonML (now ReScript) efforts at Meta (Facebook).

In the past, I worked on Alitrip (Fliggy) mobile and web apps under the Alibaba Group, found and lead front-end infrastructure team at an unicorn startup company Beijing Weiying (a.k.a. WePiao, now acquired by Maoyan), and helped Ele.me (now acquired by Alibaba) to upgrade their mobile web site into the first influential PWA (progressive web app) in China.

I studied BA, Digital Media Art at Communication University of China and MS, Computer Science (with a focus on programming languages, mainly supervised by Prof. Matthew Fluet) at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Appearence

• React Labs: What We’ve Been Working On – June 2022 · React Blog · 2022
• React Without Memo · React Conf 2021
• Toward Hermes being the Default · React Native Blog · 2021
• React Native 0.64 with Hermes for iOS · The RN Show Podcast Ep #5 · 2021
• Upgrading to Progressive Web Apps · JSConf China Shanghai 2017
• Building Progressive Web Apps · CSDI Guangzhou 2017
• The State of Progressive Web App · GDG IO Redux Beijing 2017
• PWA Rehashing · Baidu HQ Beijing 2017
• Service Worker 101 · GDG DevFest Beijing 2016
• Progressive Web Apps · QCon Shanghai 2016
• Progressive Web App in my POV · GDG IO Redux Beijing 2016
• CSS Still Sucks 2015 · 2015
• JavaScript Modularization Journey · 2015