Jessica Cheng
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Cheng is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir with a decade of hands-on software experience and a Computer Science background from Dartmouth. She blends front-end polish and full-stack systems work—React/Redux frontends, Node.js backends, and SQL—delivering mission-focused solutions in the US government space. Her track record spans internships and production roles at Palantir and Shopify, academic research on combinatorial algorithms, and building an insect-invasion prediction app that supported forestry decision-making. Comfortable teaching and mentoring, she has also led coding camps for youth and served as a CS TA, reflecting strong communication skills alongside technical depth. Jessica brings a rare mix of field-facing deployment experience and academic rigor, able to translate complex research and government requirements into practical software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (2)
backend4
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Chocolate-Moose/jessicathatsme
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
Chocolate-Moose/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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