Leon Cheung
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Cheung is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across companies from Facebook to startups like Pinecone and Palantir. He specializes in distributed and serverless infrastructure—improving autoscaling, multi-language worker platforms, and fine-grained security and identity propagation for large shared clusters. His background spans production engineering, research on low-resource NLP, and robotics frameworks, demonstrating an ability to move between deep systems work and applied research. Based in New York, he combines hands-on implementation with measurable efficiency wins (capacity and latency improvements) and a history of delivering tooling that enables secure, high-throughput asynchronous workloads.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School, High School at Burlingame High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
jupyter-notebook10
semantic-search9
python9
python-client9
ai8
llm8
palantir8
cassandra7
vector-database7
osgi7
django6
openbci6
apache6
ekg6
puzzle5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fsxfreak/esys-pbi
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
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fsxfreak/Ritual-of-Magic
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 2 months
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