Summary
Jon Cheng is a seasoned software engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and scaling web and machine learning-enabled products from startup founding stages to growth companies. He’s led front-end modernizations (vanilla JS/handlebars to React hooks, Vue micro-frontends), established hiring and interview practices, and driven cross-functional initiatives that improved new user retention and pre-sales ML deployments. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering (React, Tailwind, Firebase, Node, Python, TensorFlow.js) and people leadership, he has a track record of mentoring teams, instituting testing and code review standards, and revamping agile processes. A Harvard-educated psychology and CS hybrid, Jon pairs user-centered thinking with technical rigor—an approach that once helped convert an ML prototype into a signed client contract. Based in Salt Lake City, he currently hires and leads engineering efforts while exploring developer outreach and growth-hacking opportunities.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Psychology and Computer Science at Harvard University
Harvard-Westlake School