Experience

Circolo

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Jul 2020 - 3 years 6 months

  San Francisco Bay Area I delete code



Scale AI

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

  San Francisco, California Accelerate the development of AI applications. I'm leading teams to scale platforms for dispatching, business operations, data pipeline, and infrastructure on clouds. Also acts as security officer. If you have experience or interest in scalable systems, machine learning and APIs, please reach out to me cheng[at]scale.ai We are looking to hire strong engineers, engineering managers, machine learning scientist who thrive in a fast-paced environment.



Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager - Deep Learning and AI

  • May 2018 - Jun 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area Lead a full-stack team and machine learning scientist to build Amazon Forecast from zero and launched in reinvent 2019. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting



Uber

• United States
• Internet Marketplace Platforms
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager II

  • Nov 2014 - May 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Engineering leader @Uber Pass Envisioned Uber pass as a premium user experience, form a cross org initiative to combine intelligence spending and rider experience to launch Uber pass Leading a full-stack (mobile, web, backend, machine learning) engineering team along product managers and data scientist to continue improving Uber's product experience and intelligence incentive to power Uber's long term business growth. Founding engineer manager for Uber China Growth I was… Show more Engineering leader @Uber Pass Envisioned Uber pass as a premium user experience, form a cross org initiative to combine intelligence spending and rider experience to launch Uber pass Leading a full-stack (mobile, web, backend, machine learning) engineering team along product managers and data scientist to continue improving Uber's product experience and intelligence incentive to power Uber's long term business growth. Founding engineer manager for Uber China Growth I was initially recruited to start the engineering effort for Uber China. Primary challenges were to replace foundational services with China alternatives without splitting Uber global experience, collaborating with almost every single product engineering team and fierce competition - Grow China trips from low single digits percentage to nearly half of entire Uber. - Grow team from 4 engineers to 90 - Lead teams responsible for core flow experience in China, including trip taking, pickup, app performance, marketplace efficiency, map display, POI search, payment processing, and navigation. Played both Product Manager and Engineering Manager role on most of them. -Dot line manage a QA team in China - Championed in advocating major engineering groups to developing products with China-First mindset - Lighted up China Data Center Show less



LinkedIn

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2014

  Mountain View, CA Tech lead in LinkedIn Mobile team. - Main engineer working on LinkedIn's Android, iPhone and iPad apps. Architected both phone and iPad app to introduce news feed and increase user engagement. - Lead LinkedIn’s efforts to invest in mobile development (Mobilize), paving the way to becoming a mobile-first company. Grow mobile traffic from 15% to 45% of all LinkedIn's incoming traffic - Defined reusable components, including authentication, storage, networking, performance monitor, deep… Show more Tech lead in LinkedIn Mobile team. - Main engineer working on LinkedIn's Android, iPhone and iPad apps. Architected both phone and iPad app to introduce news feed and increase user engagement. - Lead LinkedIn’s efforts to invest in mobile development (Mobilize), paving the way to becoming a mobile-first company. Grow mobile traffic from 15% to 45% of all LinkedIn's incoming traffic - Defined reusable components, including authentication, storage, networking, performance monitor, deep linking, UI testing. Contributed code to most of them. These components were used in all LinkedIn Apps. (10+ and counting) - Hosted LinkedIn mobile training to coaching 300+ engineers write apps - Kicked off weekly iOS/Android meetups. Show less



YP, The Real Yellow Pages®

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2009 - Nov 2011

  Sunnyvale, CA Designed and shipped YPMobile app on iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry Develop AT&T SDK Widgets toolchain and runtime. Build mobile widget runtime (plusmo, BONDI, JIL & WAC ) for J2ME, Brew MP and Android phones. Port and debug webkit to Brew MP platform on device with small memory footprint.