Dennis Cheng
Software Engineer at Discord
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Cheng is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building real-time audio, video, and platform systems, currently working on media and platform infrastructure at Discord. His background includes engineering roles at Lyft focused on self-driving vehicle systems and internships at Google working on Fuchsia, Android, and Chrome, giving him a strong foundation in systems and low-latency engineering. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of distributed systems, multimedia streaming, and performance-sensitive code. Based in Houston, he brings experience shipping production services at scale for consumer-facing products. Colleagues would note his blend of pragmatic engineering and curiosity—evident from a playful personal brand and long-term commitment to complex, reliability-driven domains. He tends to favor deep technical problems over surface-level features, often contributing to platform-level improvements that benefit large user bases.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (25)
image-resizer10
image9
gif-animation9
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resize-images9
apng9
png9
jpeg9
webp9
cgo9
ffi8
golang7
webassembly6
serverless6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dchengy/dchengy.github.io
Aug 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 142 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
dyc/dots
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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