Alex Cheng
Backend Development Director at Prothentic Ltd
Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cheng is a backend development director with over 15 years of experience building high-performance systems and leading engineering teams across enterprise and startup environments. He has deep C++ expertise—most recently architecting and authoring the first lines of a ClickHouse-derived OLAP engine that delivers orders-of-magnitude performance gains for interactive process mining. His career spans senior roles at Microsoft and Autodesk, CTO-level fintech leadership, and hands-on productization of cloud-native and IoT solutions, reflecting a rare blend of strategic roadmap planning and low-level optimization. Alex excels at turning legacy codebases into scalable platforms, recruiting and mentoring senior talent, and balancing technical purity with pragmatic business trade-offs. Based in Shanghai, he combines system-level curiosity with product-minded delivery, and often dives into core algorithmic and performance details that many directors delegate.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (49)
bigquery10
mysql10
big-data10
analytics10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
clickhouse-client10
blockchain10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Alex-Cheng/ClickHouse
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 71 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 4 months
Alex-Cheng/alex-cheng.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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