Emily Cheng
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Cheng is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications across startups and large tech firms. After an early engineering and research background in mechanical systems and patent examination, she retrained at App Academy and transitioned into software roles at Funding Circle, Opendoor, and now Facebook, bringing strong analytical rigor to product development. She excels at translating complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems and enjoys learning new technologies to solve ambiguous problems. Emily’s cross-disciplinary background—combining hands-on simulation scripting, IP analysis, and modern web engineering—gives her a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to software design and collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering at HKUSTBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyApp Academy
Github Skills (20)
error-reporting4
debugging4
error-handling4
isomorphic4
bug-reporting4
netsuite4
shared4
child-process3
error-messages3
package3
npm3
javascript3
monitoring3
browser3
zap3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emwads/RunThisPlace
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:72 commits, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
emwads/emwads.github.io
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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