Jessica Cheng
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Cheng is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir with a decade of hands-on software experience and a Computer Science background from Dartmouth. She blends front-end polish and full-stack systems work—React/Redux frontends, Node.js backends, and SQL—delivering mission-focused solutions in the US government space. Her track record spans internships and production roles at Palantir and Shopify, academic research on combinatorial algorithms, and building an insect-invasion prediction app that supported forestry decision-making. Comfortable teaching and mentoring, she has also led coding camps for youth and served as a CS TA, reflecting strong communication skills alongside technical depth. Jessica brings a rare mix of field-facing deployment experience and academic rigor, able to translate complex research and government requirements into practical software.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Wellesley High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (2)
backend4
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Chocolate-Moose/jessicathatsme
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
Chocolate-Moose/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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