Fred Cheng
Founding Engineer at Bilrost
United States
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Top SchoolFred Cheng is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building product-led startups and scaling engineering teams across payments, onboarding, and back-office systems. He co-founded multiple startups including Simperium (creator of Simplenote) and Tsukemen, which was acquired by Blockchain, and has since led engineering at Blockchain.com and Autograph before founding Bilrost. Fred blends hands-on product engineering and architecture with operator experience—running teams that shipped consumer apps, sync infrastructure, and high-throughput payments services. He has a track record of turning small, design-driven teams into scalable organizations and navigating acquisitions from both founder and enterprise sides. Based in the United States and educated in CS&E at UCLA, he favors pragmatic solutions that bridge mobile/web UX with reliable backend systems. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated success taking sync and notification systems from prototype to production at scale, a thread running through his startups and platform work.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese
Github Skills (51)
wordpress10
plugin10
wordpress-plugin10
traffic10
jetpack9
redux9
python-server9
marketing9
php9
react9
js9
modeless8
json-objects8
api8
github-services8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Simperium/jsondiff
May 2011 - Jun 2014
Contributions:56 commits in 3 years 1 month
json-objectsjsondiffing
Simperium/simperium-python
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
client-librarypythonpython3
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