Ben Cheung
Software Engineer at Manulife
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cheung is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from biochemistry to building developer-facing platforms and product features at companies like Coinbase, Riot Games, and Manulife. He’s driven measurable impact across observability, developer experience, and web3 discovery—reducing incident triage from 24 hours to 30 minutes at Riot and championing accessibility tooling and platform adoption at Coinbase. A founder and early team member in multiple community and startup efforts, Ben co-founded Tech Career North and helped launch Enjin’s developer ecosystem, blending technical writing, DevRel, and GTM work. Comfortable across full-stack product engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform tooling, he pairs scientific rigor with product-minded execution and a knack for turning community signals into practical developer resources. Based in Old Toronto, he brings an unusual mix of lab-trained analytical thinking and hands-on systems experience to scale both code and communities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry at University of Windsor
Github Skills (20)
backend9
mern8
overhead8
expressjs8
discord-js7
mongodb-database7
discord-bot7
crud7
django6
classifier6
database5
javascript4
twitter4
order-management4
react3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FriendDash/FriendDash
May 2022 - Dec 2022
FriendDash is a web app that enables users to save time, money, and get their food faster! We work to connect students with their communities across UBC. FriendDash offers a group order management and delivery platform which facilitates order sharing and group buys with minimal overhead.
Contributions:40 reviews, 80 commits, 36 PRs in 6 months
djangojavascriptoverheadsharingfood
MrBenC88/All-About-APIs-Workshop
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
All About APIs is a nwPlus workshop teaching individuals about how to setup their own Express.js backend server with a MongoDB database. It also covers the creation of endpoints that perform CRUD operations on the database.
Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 11 months
backendcruddatabaseexpressjsmongodb-database
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