Michael Cheng
Staff Software Engineer at Advocacy
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cheng is a Staff Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling products from scrappy prototypes to global platforms, currently focused on developer-facing infrastructure and platform modernization. He has driven measurable impact across companies like Dropbox—where he helped scale Backup from ~4.5M to ~10.7M MAU and sped up core web app TTVC from ~8s to ~3s—and PayPal, where he led a migration that enabled $22M/month in BNPL revenue. Comfortable bridging product and execution, Michael came to engineering from an Economics background and emphasizes outcomes, pragmatic architecture, and team leverage over pedigree. He combines full-stack fluency with cross-functional leadership, routinely coordinating multiple teams to deliver UI, backend, and infra improvements that reduce cost and increase developer efficiency. An operator at heart, he prefers solving high-leverage problems that amplify the effectiveness of others.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics , Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at University of California, Riverside
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
estate4
crossword4
azerothcore3
grav-plugin3
react-redux2
php2
summernote2
cockpit1
cms1
javascript1
dropbox1
redux1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michaelcheng022/vr-squad-inc
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Real-Estate Content Mangement System (CMS)
Contributions:11 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
cmscrosswordazerothcoremangement-systemphp
michaelcheng022/portfolio
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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