Summary
Ben Cheng is a seasoned founder and engineer with 14 years building developer-focused products and startups from Hong Kong. As co-founder of Authgear and FormX.ai and founder of Oursky, he blends hands-on coding roots with product-led engineering to simplify authentication and automate document data extraction using ML. His work emphasizes secure, developer-friendly APIs and seamless user experiences, including zero-trust, biometric, and SSO capabilities. Early web and systems experience (C, Perl, PHP, Python) and research into social media censorship inform a pragmatic, privacy-conscious approach to product design. He’s equally comfortable shipping production systems and leading small teams to craft polished apps and infrastructure. Outside the obvious, he’s maintained a long arc from teenage coder to serial founder, consistently turning niche technical problems into commercial developer tools.
15 years of coding experience
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, Chinese