Derek Cheng
Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Cheng is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend and media systems, currently at Google in Kirkland, WA. He has deep expertise in media casting over WiFi (Chrome Media Router/Chromecast), performance-critical data collection and analysis, payments infrastructure, and large-scale legacy data migrations. Derek has split his career between hands-on C++/JS system work and leading small cross-functional teams to improve discovery, reliability, and UX for complex distributed devices. At Grab he ran a Seattle–Singapore team delivering backend services for shared transportation products, showing his ability to operate across time zones and product domains. He combines production-grade engineering (end-to-end pipelines, dashboards, and API integrations) with a strong academic foundation in computer engineering from the University of Washington. Less obvious: he routinely bridges frontend, native, and backend stacks to turn platform-level research and specs (e.g., Presentation API) into shipped product features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, 3.87 / 4, B.S., Computer Engineering, 3.87 / 4 at University of Washington
Chinese
Github Skills (13)
google-chrome8
gstreamer8
chrome-extension8
vaapi8
chrome7
youtube6
pipeline6
collaboration6
browser5
chromium5
javascript5
on-demand5
streaming-video4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
imcheng/presentation-api-samples
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
imcheng/samples
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
chrome-extensionjavascriptgoogle-chromechrome
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