Summary
Leo Cheung is a Principal Architect and seasoned software leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems, from streaming ETL and big-data SaaS to IoT, blockchain, and smart contracts. A serial co-founder and former CTO/VP of engineering, he has led product and R&D teams that delivered patented machine-learning energy optimization, geospatial real-estate analytics, and secure messaging frameworks. He combines deep technical chops in Scala, Akka, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra and cloud platforms with practical startup instincts honed across cleantech, real estate and health & fitness ventures. Based in Sunnyvale, he still codes and incubates R&D projects at Genuine Technology while writing about tech for practitioner audiences. An uncommon strength is translating research-level ideas into production-grade architectures that scale across devices and cloud, informed by an M.S. in mathematics.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Mathematics at Virginia Tech
Honors Diploma Mathematics, Honors Diploma Mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University