Joanne Cheng
Clojure(Script) Engineer at Vara
Belgium
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Top SchoolJoanne Cheng is a seasoned Clojure(Script) engineer with 14 years of experience shipping reliable software across insurance, healthcare, and energy management. She has led distributed engineering teams in the US and Europe, turning domain expertise into practical technical solutions and guiding best practices around testing and maintainability. Her toolbox spans functional languages—Clojure, Elixir, Elm—plus JavaScript and cloud-backed data stores, and she has acted as both hands-on engineer and developer-relations writer for open-source Clojure libraries. At companies from Pitch to Corvus and Vara she’s combined data visualization and backend efficiency improvements, notably improving underwriting workflows and instrumenting component testing practices. Based in Belgium with a background in music performance, she brings a creative, systems-oriented approach to designing clear, maintainable developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Music Music Performance, Bachelor's of Music Music Performance at Rutgers University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (62)
javascript10
visualization10
continuous-integration10
keen-js10
charts10
web-analytics10
code-review10
data-explorer10
analytics-tracking10
analytics-api10
event-data10
hound10
keen-io10
react10
clojure-test9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joannecheng/joannecheng.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
personal site
Contributions:234 pushes, 5 branches in 10 years 11 months
reactnextjs
joannecheng/septa-ruby
Aug 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 1 year 3 months
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