About

Willa Zhang is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with a remarkable career spanning over 31 years. With expertise in design, prototyping, architecture, specifications, implementation, integration, and maintenance, Willa has an impressive track record of delivering high-quality software solutions. She has 15 years of experience in Mac OS and iOS software development, where she has worked on end-user apps, UI, frameworks, and drivers. Additionally, Willa has extensive cross-platform development experience and excellent debugging skills. Willa is proficient in several programming languages, including Objective-C, C, C++, OOD, Java, ActionScript, and AppleScript. She is also well-versed in development tools such as Xcode, gcc/gdb, Interface Builder, Instrument, Shark, Perforce, SVN, SourceSafe, and Microsoft Visual C++. Willa has worked with several technologies, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, iOS SDK, Cocoa, Mac OS X Frameworks, Adobe Flex and AIR development, Acrobat SDK, and PDF Library SDK. She is proficient in iOS, Mac, Windows, and UNIX operating systems. Currently, Willa works as a Senior Software Engineer at Apple, where she has designed and implemented Wireless Diagnostics 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. She has also fixed numerous bugs in Wireless Diagnostics, CoreWLANKit.framework, and Wi-Fi menu extra for each major and minor OS X releases. Additionally, she has maintained Network Utility app, added new features to Wi-Fi menu extra, and created a dozen of iOS and OS X prototype apps for proof of concepts and seed projects. Previously, Willa has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Luidia, where she developed innovative eBeam Interact software systems for education, distance learning, conferencing, audio/visual, and office products markets. She has also worked as a Computer Scientist at Adobe, where she contributed to the successful ship of Acrobat 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x on schedules to millions of customers. At Adobe, she developed several features and applications, including Save as Adobe PDF service, Distiller, Acrobat DVA plug-in, Adobe PDF Printer, Acrobat Distiller Plug-in, Acrobat Reader for Palm OS, and Acrobat WebBuy Plug-in. Overall, Willa is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions. With her extensive experience and expertise, she is a