Bill Cheng
Senior Software Engineer at Alibaba Group
Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Cheng is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of cross-platform development experience, currently building products at Alibaba in Shanghai. He specializes in iOS (Objective-C and Swift) while also bringing strong Java, PHP, Python, and C++ skills—having led mobile and web teams as Director of Technology and Technology Manager. Bill has hands-on experience shipping iOS, Android, and web services for consumer education and reading apps, and has managed full development lifecycles from team building to delivery. His background combines formal software engineering education from the University of Wollongong with practical leadership across startups and large tech, making him adept at bridging product needs and implementation. Less obvious: he moves comfortably between senior individual-contributor work and technical management, often translating mobile constraints into scalable backend choices.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (46)
debugging10
urlrequest10
swift-package-manager10
networking10
xcode10
network-extension10
urlsession10
carthage10
swift10
certificate-pinning10
public-key-pinning10
alamofire10
ios9
desktop-application9
proxy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
so898/OnlyLZ2
Jun 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year
so898/WeiPulse-OpenSource
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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