Raymond Cheng
CEO Co-Founder at Canopy Realty
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond Cheng is a serial founder, research-trained software engineer, and entrepreneur with 14 years building privacy-forward distributed systems, secure computing platforms, and developer tools. He co-founded Oasis Labs and led engineering on projects that attracted top-tier VC backing and production adoption, and his open-source networking work was productionized by Google as Outline, now used by millions. Currently CEO of Kariba Labs and President of the Public Goods Foundation, he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership across startups, academia, and public-interest tech. An MIT- and UW-trained PhD, he pairs deep systems and security research with practical fixes—as evidenced by recent front-end CLI reliability improvements to Plasmic—while also operating in real estate as a licensed broker. Colleagues describe him as a privacy-minded builder who moves between code, research, and organizational strategy with equal fluency.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
ui-builder10
typescript10
filesystem10
javascript10
typescripts10
resolutions10
frontend10
fileio10
rpath10
paths10
typescript-types10
file-manipulation10
cli10
react10
build-system9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plasmicapp/plasmic
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 5 comments, 5 issues in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Raymond's commits primarily focused on debugging and improving the Plasmic CLI tool, specifically addressing path resolution issues in the `plasmic.json` configuration file. They implemented fixes to ensure relative paths were correctly resolved based on the location of `plasmic.json` and the `srcDir` configuration. These changes aimed to address frequent "move detections" that were triggered due to incorrect path handling, and they indicate a focus on improving the reliability and usability of the Plasmic CLI for front-end developers.
cmsdrag-dropheadlesslowcodecss
ryscheng/ryscheng.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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