Eric Cheng
Software Engineer at Soff
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Cheng is a rapid-learning software engineer and early-stage product builder with five years of experience shipping production systems and open-source tooling. He progressed from self-taught math novice to completing graduate-level coursework while teaching himself full-stack development, leading teams to build a React/Next.js web app and securing a $10k/month Google Ad Grant. Eric was a core contributor to faker-js (800M+ downloads) helping rebuild and extend the library, and has improved developer tooling like withfig/autocomplete through practical CircleCI integrations. As an early engineer at multiple YC- and investor-backed startups and a Y Combinator AI Startup School selectee, he blends machine learning intuition—having derived and implemented online learning and gradient descent from first principles—with hands-on delivery. Based in Ithaca and trained at Cornell, he favors grasping the “gist” to master complex domains quickly and consistently ships solutions used at scale.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
AI Startup School, AI Startup School at Y CombinatorNon-Degree Studies, Non-Degree Studies at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Green Hope High School
Github Skills (18)
data-generation10
javascript10
autocomplete10
typescript10
circleci10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
shell10
cli10
smartphone9
strings9
bash9
text-manipulation9
finance9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
faker-js/faker
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1438 reviews, 42 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature additions within the faker-js/faker repository. Their work involved correcting return types in TypeScript files, adding a Discord link to the documentation, and adding new product names and city prefixes/suffixes for the en locale. The user also added a new functionality for generating PIN numbers and implementing phone IMEI generation.
databrowseramountstestingjavascript
withfig/autocomplete
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the CircleCI integration within the `autocomplete` project. Their work involved adding command options and subcommands for the `circleci` CLI, specifically concerning its completion feature, config operations, context management, and runner functionalities. They also made a crucial fix to change options to subcommands where appropriate, improving the overall structure of the completion specifications.
zshiterm2bashfigide
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