Glen Cheney
Staff Software Engineer at Lyft
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGlen Cheney is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in frontend engineering, currently driving strategic frontend vision and standards at Lyft from Charlotte, NC. He combines hands-on modernization—building libraries and protobuf tooling adopted by dozens of services—with cross-org leadership, having influenced infrastructure planning and improved developer experience across 23+ team roadmaps. Glen has led multi-year deprecation and rearchitecture efforts that measurably improved performance and reduced fragmentation, while mentoring engineers and codifying best practices through review forums and working groups. His background includes agency work where he shipped high-profile consumer-facing projects (Tesla kiosks, Sony, Audemars Piguet) and championed open-source tooling and build-system modernization. Notably, his protobuf interface library and Fleet UI library now have widespread company adoption, reflecting an uncommon blend of product impact and platform-level technical influence.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, New Media Interactive Development, Bachelor of Science, New Media Interactive Development at Rochester Institute of TechnologyCrescent Valley High School
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Github Skills (157)
htaccess10
font-size10
vanilla-javascript10
javascript10
async10
babel-loader10
react-component10
service-worker10
starlark10
rest10
layout10
masonry10
typescript10
file-icons10
filter10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
glen-cheney/Shuffle
Dec 2011 - Jul 2022
Categorize, sort, and filter a responsive grid of items
Contributions:20 releases, 8 reviews, 414 commits in 10 years 8 months
categorizemasonrygrid-systemcsslayout
Vestride/cssnano-minifier
Jan 2018 - Nov 2024
Drag and drop css minification with cssnano
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 11 months
cssnano-minifiercsscssnanodrag-and-dropcss-minification
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