Melissa Cheng
Software Engineer at Private Lessons
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Cheng is a full-stack software engineer based in Houston with nine years of professional experience blending technical craft with a background in music education and arts administration. She builds user-focused web applications using JavaScript, Python, Java, React, Flask, Spring, Node/Express, and both SQL and MongoDB, and has progressed from intern to software engineer at TodayTix Group. Her prior roles organizing performances, admissions, and student programs inform a strong user empathy, meticulous event-driven project management, and clear client communication. Melissa also consults on UX-driven websites (Gatsby/Figma) and continues to teach flute and piano, demonstrating a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that helps her translate complex requirements into intuitive interfaces. Outside of work she balances code with performance and community—maintaining a private teaching studio and a habit of iterative learning that fuels her product-facing engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Certificate Web Development Computer Software Engineering at Coding DojoBachelor of Music Music Performance Flute, Bachelor of Music Music Performance Flute at Boston UniversityFlute, Flute at Juilliard Pre-CollegeBoston University Study Abroad Program Music Performance Flute, Boston University Study Abroad Program Music Performance Flute at Royal College of MusicMaster of Music Flute Performance, Master of Music Flute Performance at The New School
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Github Skills (13)
javascript9
open-source8
jekyll8
jekyll-theme7
gatsbyjs7
theme-ui6
react5
large-image5
gatsby4
emotion4
react-spring3
mdx3
css1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
melissaAcheng/StudioPortal
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:117 commits, 18 PRs, 93 pushes in 9 months
melissaAcheng/Python
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Coding-Dojo Python Course
Contributions:25 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
pythondojocoding-dojopython-coursepython3
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