Kevin Cheng
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Cheng is a senior iOS engineer with over a decade in software and more than six years building production iOS apps and frameworks, now contributing at WhatsApp after leadership roles at Instagram and WeWork. A Swift enthusiast since version 1 and a Medium writer, he combines deep expertise in mobile design patterns and system architecture with hands-on implementation of animations, Core Bluetooth integrations, and cross-platform product features. He has led teams to ship high-scale media products like Instagram Reels and built modular frameworks and CocoaPods distributions for partner ecosystems. Comfortable across the stack, his background spans native mobile, backend APIs, and .NET web systems—an uncommon breadth that helps him bridge product, design, and engineering. Known for a pragmatic, can-do approach, he also has experience localizing apps into multiple languages and integrating wearable and external device workflows.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at National Central University
Chinese
Github Skills (14)
openid9
openid-connect9
combine9
authentication8
swiftui8
sdk8
oauth7
macos7
swift7
tvos7
ios7
cocoapods5
visualize5
xcode5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kevinjohnason/combine-magic-swiftui
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
A powerful playground and series of tutorials that visualize Combine framework in SwiftUI
Contributions:106 commits, 2 PRs, 98 pushes in 10 months
cocoapodstvosvisualizecombineswift
kevinjohnason/CombineDemo
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:85 pushes, 10 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
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