Zeya Peng

Software Engineer
Meta Platforms Inc.

Zeya is a Software Engineer on React team at Meta, where she works on React Native's adoption in Meta's VR products including Horizon Worlds and Instagram VR. Alongside this, she led the rewrite of React Native's native animated system in C++, unifying four platform-specific implementations into a single cross-platform engine now shipped on Meta apps.

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2026
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One Engine to Animate Them All: Rewriting React Native's Animated in C++

We rewrote React Native's native animated system in C++ -- converging four platform-specific implementations into one engine so that every feature and fix only needs to be written once. This talk covers the journey: why we built it, what bugs we fixed, and what it unlocks for your apps.

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