Jerry Cheung
Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Cheung is a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub with 17 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams around Ruby on Rails and web platforms. He progressed from senior engineer to management within GitHub, combining deep technical fluency with people leadership to ship reliable, maintainable systems at scale. A longtime Rubyist, he contributes to notable open-source projects like html-pipeline and ruby-net-ldap, focusing on practical fixes—emoji/@mention rendering, sanitization, and testable socket initialization—that improve developer experience and code quality. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained at UC Berkeley, he blends product-focused engineering with an emphasis on refactoring and documentation. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys solving real-world problems while continually exploring new technical challenges and nudging codebases toward long-term maintainability.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (8)
html10
ruby10
ldap10
develop10
testing10
version-control9
socket9
socket-io9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Pure Ruby LDAP library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 60 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily focused on enhancing the `ruby-net-ldap` library. Their contributions included bumping the version, adhering to semantic versioning, and refactoring the socket initialization process for improved testing. They also added documentation to the code base. These changes indicate a focus on code quality and maintainability, with an emphasis on improving the internal workings of the LDAP library.
ldapruby
gjtorikian/html-pipeline
Nov 2012 - Sep 2017
HTML processing filters and utilities
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 46 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the HTML processing filters and utilities, focusing on enhancements and maintenance. Their work included fixing bugs related to @mentions, emoji rendering, and sanitization. They also updated the project's dependencies, implemented various version bumps, and refined the codebase by addressing code-related issues.
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