Claire Cheng
Software Engineer at Notion
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClaire Cheng is a software engineer with 8 years of experience who blends a strong CS background from MIT with creative pursuits in music and writing. She has built product-facing growth features and core platform work at startups like Whatnot and now works at Notion, with internships and research roles at Meta/Facebook and the MIT Media Lab. Claire teaches and mentors—she ran React.js bootcamp-style classes for 200 students at MIT's web.lab and has hands-on experience shipping web and iOS features. Her work spans frontend and backend domains, including building a web app for AeroAstro that collected voice recordings destined for space and research in deep-learning music generation. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic builder who brings interdisciplinary curiosity from music into elegant engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), Music (21M-1), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), Music (21M-1) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStudent, Student at Irvington High School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
music-generation6
magenta6
music5
machine-learning4
gatsby-plugin3
code-behind3
generative-art3
gatsby2
gatsbyjs2
balloon1
aws-s31
speech1
aws1
disqus1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clairefuzzyelephant/clarity-eats
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Personal travel blog site, built with Gatsby.js
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
appteamfbu2019/askandlearn
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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