Olivia Cheng
Product Design Director at The New York Times
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivia Cheng is a product design leader with 12 years of experience crafting human-centered technology and services, currently directing product design at The New York Times. She builds and scales design teams and systems that modernize shared platforms and improve core infrastructure across large organizations, with prior senior roles at Webflow and Nava where her work measurably increased user activation and streamlined access to public services. Deeply committed to inclusive design, she focuses on solutions that serve vulnerable and underserved communities, bringing both strategic research and hands-on front-end experience (including accessibility and Tailwind-based implementations on public projects like ieeevis.org). Based in Washington, D.C., Olivia blends product strategy, team-building, and practical engineering intuition to turn complex problems into grounded, equitable experiences.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Binghamton University
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
webpacker10
webpack10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ieee-vgtc/ieeevis.org
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Website for ieeevis.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Olivia primarily worked on setting up and configuring the front-end of the ieeevis.org website. Their commits focused on the initial setup of a new Jekyll theme, incorporating webpack and Tailwind CSS. They also made updates to the navigation component, including accessibility enhancements and styling. The user's work directly impacted the website's appearance and user interface.
heyitsolivia/heyitsolivia_2016
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 months
reactnextjs
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