Jane Manchun Wong is a hacker whose passion for finding new features has made her a must-follow for Facebook employees hoping to stay up to date with their colleagues' work.
Wong has been described as "a better source on projects going on across the company than internal comms" by an Instagram employee.
Wong, a 25-year-old software engineer in Hong Kong, checks every new line of code any time one of her Android smartphone's apps get an update. She locates new code, reverse-engineers it and finds new features before they are announced. This knack for feature discovery has made Wong something of a Twitter celebrity. She now has more than 50,000 followers, and this month, she gained two followers that really stood out: Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook's Instagram, and Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, the head of"I find it very surprising that they do acknowledge my existence," Wong said. "I used to talk to the world as if no one was watching, but now, they're following me.
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