Vincent Woo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Woo is a San Francisco–based software engineer and founder with 14 years building developer-facing products and production web systems. He founded CoderPad and led its early product and business efforts, blending hands‑on engineering with customer conversations and fundraising. His career spans Google, Amazon, Everlane and startups, and his open‑source contributions to CodeMirror, Firepad and firebase-ruby reflect full‑stack work from editor UX to API design and auth/token handling. Known for pragmatic refactors, test-driven fixes, and improvements to collaborative editing and cursor sync, he focuses on developer experience and internal architecture. Comfortable shifting between product strategy and deep technical execution, he holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Github Skills (18)
api-doc10
javascript10
css10
ruby10
codemirror-610
codemirror610
api10
javascripts10
theme-development10
codemirror10
firebase10
httpclient10
rspec9
front-end-development9
g8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
oscardelben/firebase-ruby
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Ruby wrapper for Firebase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily refactored the codebase to improve its structure and maintainability. They removed a proxy class and exposed the HTTP client, indicating a focus on API interaction and internal architecture. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to query parameter passing and implemented tests. Furthermore, they handled token refreshes and made version bumps.
ruby-wrapperfirebase-databasefirestorerailsfirebase-functions
FirebaseExtended/firepad
May 2013 - Apr 2016
Collaborative Text Editor Powered by Firebase
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 9 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vincent made several code changes primarily focused on improving the functionality and usability of the collaborative text editor. They made Firepad.TextOperation public and standardized the RichTextCodeMirrorAdapter. The user also added support for 'grunt watch' to improve the development workflow and made various improvements to the cursor synchronization. Finally, they addressed issues related to cursor movement.
reactfirebaseace-editorcollaborativetext-editor
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