Brenton Cheng
Senior Engineer, Archive.org & Open Library at Internet Archive
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton Cheng is a senior engineer and product-minded technologist with 14+ years building high-traffic web and mobile platforms, currently shaping Archive.org and the Open Library catalog of 25 million books. He blends hands-on Swift, Ruby, and Python development with product leadership and architecture decisions, previously leading global teams at NBCUniversal’s Stringwire and shipping apps with millions of installs. An active contributor to Internet Archive projects like BookReader and Open Library, he focuses on front-end UX improvements, analytics, and borrow/metadata workflows to improve discoverability and access. Trained as a mechanical and biomechanical engineer (Princeton, Stanford), Brenton pairs rigorous technical problem-solving with deep expertise in human movement—teaching Laban Movement Analysis and creating movement-literacy mobile tools—which informs his user-centered approach to software design.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSME, (Bio)Mechanical Engineering, MSME, (Bio)Mechanical Engineering at Stanford UniversityBSEE, Mechanical Engineering, BSEE, Mechanical Engineering at Princeton University
English, French, Russian, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
web-development10
openlibrary10
front-end-development10
analytics9
html9
css9
opengraph8
google-books6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
internetarchive/bookreader
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
The Internet Archive BookReader
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 13 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brenton appears to have primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the Internet Archive BookReader. Their commits include adding tracking events related to view changes and fixing a typo in the documentation. They also made modifications to the analytics plugin, potentially to include additional data in tracking calls. The changes predominantly involved JavaScript files.
ebooksbookreaderinternet-archivearchiveinternetarchive
internetarchive/openlibrary
May 2016 - Feb 2017
One webpage for every book ever published!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 148 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily contributed to the front-end of the Open Library project, with a focus on the borrow page. They implemented localized date-time display using Moment.js, modified the CSS for correct display, and added Google Analytics click tracking to relevant links. The user also worked on refactoring of the affiliate links functionality as well as incorporating Open Graph markup to enhance social sharing on different pages.
reactinternet-archiveeverlibrary-cataloguepublished
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