Cheng Gong
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorCheng Gong is a product-minded senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building 0-to-1 products and scalable systems across startups and mid-stage companies. Based in New York, he has shipped full-stack features and core APIs at Rippling, Carta, and Asana, and served as an early engineer architecting infrastructure and CI/CD at companies like Serenade and Sparkwise. As a solo founder he designed and launched Manyfest, a SwiftUI iOS app with a TypeScript/Express backend, growing it to hundreds of users while owning product, design, and growth. He excels at translating product needs into reliable technical foundations—designing databases and APIs that handle high-volume objects and smoothing migrations of legacy systems. Known for wearing multiple hats, Cheng blends hands-on engineering with user-centric product iteration and has repeatedly established team processes and scalable deployments. His background at Harvard CS50 also hints at a strong commitment to teaching and clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (36)
cs5010
drawing9
intellij-platform8
whiteboard8
canvas8
collaboration8
visualization8
javascript7
speech7
css7
linux7
hyper7
react7
html7
sketching7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
minervaproject/little-service
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes in 2 months
serenadeai/intellij
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Serenade plugin for IntelliJ Platform
Contributions:63 commits, 19 pushes in 9 months
intellij-platform
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