Elvin Cheng
Software Engineer at Datadog
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolElvin Cheng is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building production systems and a passion for FinTech, currently contributing at Datadog in Boston. He combines full-stack development with systems and data work, having shipped real-time event pipeline enhancements at Klaviyo and data pipelines and QA for operational dashboards. Elvin has led engineering teams and student innovation programs at Northeastern, co-founded a pro-bono FinTech consulting group, and built tutoring SaaS as an engineering lead—demonstrating both product intuition and team leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented novel video stabilization algorithms and Rust-based processing features in the gyroflow project, reflecting comfort with performance-sensitive code and cross-cutting system design. He thrives on solving practical problems, rapidly learning new technologies, and turning prototypes into usable products that change how people interact with services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Business Administration at Northeastern UniversityHunter College High School
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Github Skills (12)
video-processing10
algorithms10
rust10
gyroscope10
user-interface8
fpc7
fvp7
360-video6
accelerated-computing4
gpu4
parallel-computing4
gpgpu4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gyroflow/gyroflow
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Video stabilization using gyroscope data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on Video Processing & Rust)
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on Video Processing & Rust)Contributions:4 reviews, 62 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Elvin primarily contributes to the `gyroflow/gyroflow` project, which is focused on video stabilization using gyroscope data. Their commits showcase the implementation of new video stabilization algorithms, including "Fixed camera smoothing" and "Horizon lock". The code changes involve modifications to the core smoothing algorithms, and their integration into the overall video processing pipeline, written in Rust. The user also refactored code, added parameters and implemented UI elements.
stabilizationvideo-stabilizationgoprogpurust
ElvinC/liftoff
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
A 2d space flight simulator written in JavaScript
Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 2 months
flightjavascriptsimulationsimulatorflight-simulator
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