Cheng Zhang
Senior Software Developer at Emerson
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Zhang is a Senior Software Developer based in Boston with 11 years of experience delivering production-grade full‑stack systems and applied AI solutions. He combines deep academic research—PhD work producing multiple published papers on NLP, QA, and intelligent readers—with hands-on engineering that re-architected a demand-forecasting pipeline to achieve 3x throughput and halve resource usage. At Emerson he built practical AI tooling including a RAG-based chat assistant for manuals and a fine-tuned code autocompletion model, and has strong experience in authentication and scalable search. Earlier roles span leading dozens of commercial projects, cloud resource management, and enterprise IT where he drove cost and security improvements, reflecting a rare blend of research rigor and product-focused delivery. Notably, Cheng often turns research prototypes into high-performance services (e.g., sub-20ms QA and million-user news analytics), making him effective at moving ML innovations into production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
keyword-extraction10
keyword10
extraction10
lda10
rapid9
react9
python8
typescript8
data-mining8
ui-components7
react-components6
antd6
ui-design5
squad4
language-design4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uml-ubicomp-2016-spring/ubicomp16-Driving-Behavior-Analysis
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 1 month
ZhangChengX/T5-Fine-Tuning-for-Question-Generation
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
T5 Fine-tuning on SQuAD Dataset for Question Generation
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 9 months
questionsquad-datasetsquaddatasetfine
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