Summary
Cheeching Yu is a seasoned senior software engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a decade-plus at Microsoft-level teams, specializing in Mac OS X/iOS and cross-platform systems engineering. He excels at bridging native UI code with C/C++ engines—having ported and shipped major charting and Office features on macOS—and has a strong track record fixing deep stability and security issues at scale. Comfortable leading solo projects or working in agile teams, he brings expertise across Objective-C, C/C++, C#, Python and web technologies, and has driven tooling, build automation, and test infrastructure improvements. Notably, his work has delivered measurable product and market impact, from expanding Japanese market share for WRQ to hardening core Office components and supporting Azure Fleet Management at Microsoft. Based in Sammamish, WA, he combines low-level systems rigor with practical UI/UX integration, making him a reliable engineer for complex cross-platform challenges.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Chinese Academy of Science
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Beijing University of Technology