Luciano Cheng
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuciano Cheng is an experienced engineer, founder, and angel investor with 14 years building and scaling software and AI-driven products from Google and Schrodinger to multiple startups and exits. He leads Floc Media, where he builds AI-first products—ranging from high-precision entity deduplication and GenAI game content to a creator app with over 10 million Android downloads—and advises startups as a fractional CTO. Luciano blends hands-on engineering (mobile, cloud, distributed systems) with technical product management and capital experience, having both raised funds and invested across DevTools, AI SaaS, biotech, and materials science. His background includes architecting enterprise bioinformatics platforms, rewriting core rendering and distributed pipelines at Google, and contributing Android UX improvements like pinch-to-zoom in popular open-source projects. Based in San Francisco, he prefers working with early-stage teams that treat software and data as their core product and often drives pragmatic, production-ready AI solutions that cut across research and business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Software Engineering, with a concentration in Distributed and Web Systems, MSE, Software Engineering, with a concentration in Distributed and Web Systems at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (13)
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nodejs6
linux6
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python6
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flutter6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
burhanrashid52/PhotoEditor
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
A Photo Editor library with simple, easy support for image editing using paints,text,filters,emoji and Sticker like stories.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 reviews, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Luciano contributed to the `photoeditor` repository, focusing on the Android implementation. Their work involved adding and modifying views, specifically creating a `ViewState` class and integrating it within the `PhotoEditor` class. The commits also included fixing behaviors related to touch events and improving the overall user experience by adjusting focus view logic and button functionalities. The user also refactored code and added the implementation of the pinch to zoom feature.
emojiimagefilterscanvasandroid
lucianocheng/PhotoEditor
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 reviews, 44 PRs, 92 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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