Felix Cheung
Product at Essence Venture Capital
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Cheung is a product-focused technology leader and engineer with 20+ years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure, currently working at NVIDIA and based in Oregon. He has led engineering at startups and scale-ups (SafeGraph, Uber, Microsoft) delivering PB-scale telemetry, Spark-as-a-service, and data-centric products while coaching managers and growing cross-functional teams. A long-time Apache PMC member and committer, Felix has helped shepherd multiple incubations to graduation (Zeppelin, Spark, Sedona) and driven community education as a TA and meetup co-organizer. He blends hands-on architecture and coding with product judgment, security and DevOps rigor, and an investor/advisor perspective through angel investments and VC LP activity. Notably, his open-source contributions predate many corporate donations and include early SparkR integration work that influenced Spark’s ML/data ecosystem.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.A.Sc Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (53)
placekey10
api-client10
h310
pypi10
geospatial9
api9
google-sheets9
tableau8
r-package8
hierarchical7
r7
spark7
java7
gcp7
geocoding7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Placekey/awesome-placekey
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
😎 Awesome lists about awesome placekey related frameworks, libraries, software, tools, and resources
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
python-librarygoogle-sheetsjupyter-notebookjavascriptsoftware-tools
SafeGraphInc/sigspatial-2021-cafe-analysis
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Project code for the 2021 SIGSPATIAL Conference Workshop
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
code-projectworkshop
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