Claire 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 Technology
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