Summary
Chengming Liao is a staff full-stack software engineer with about a decade of experience building real-time messaging and commerce features at Meta, where he has led cross‑team initiatives as Tech Lead on the Business Messaging Experience team. He played a central role in major releases such as Messenger Platform integrations, Marketplaces improvements, m.me short links, social plugins for businesses, and Project LightSpeed that cut Messenger app size by ~80%. Skilled across Objective-C, Hacklang, Python, React and JavaScript (with C/C++/Java experience), he combines low-level performance work with front-end product delivery. A UC Berkeley CS graduate with a 3.96 GPA, he pairs strong academic foundations with a knack for shipping high-impact systems that connect customers and businesses in real time. Notably, his profile hints at a wry, internet-culture sense of humor, suggesting a pragmatic engineer who still enjoys the quirks of developer life.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.96, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.96 at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese, English, Japanese