Summary
Cheng Yu is a Tech Lead based in Greater Melbourne with a decade of software experience and over six years in leadership roles, currently accelerating product delivery for Unitix’s Merchi platform. He blends backend expertise (Django, Postgres), cloud and DevOps skills (AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD) with practical frontend knowledge (React, Redux) to ship features quickly while improving quality through TDD and Scrum. Cheng has a track record of cutting CI/CD times by more than half and reducing AWS costs by over 70% while introducing architectural and process improvements that enabled client-to-client shopping on Merchi. He mentors junior engineers, manages scrum cadence, and open-sources developer tooling like the Merchi SDK to simplify API adoption. Outside of day-to-day work he explores machine learning, serverless patterns and functional programming, and signals interest in privacy-preserving ML through his GitHub tagline "All for ZKML."
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at RMIT