Summary
Robinson Cheng is a Senior Software and Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems for internet, warehousing, and logistics domains while based in Berlin. He has progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Zalando, shaping markets, traffic, and smart logistics systems with a focus on microservices, Kubernetes, and AWS. Robinson mentors and leads teams, drives code quality improvements, and designs extensible architectures that favor functional programming principles for streaming workloads. A strong advocate of DevOps practices, he emphasizes automated testing, infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, and robust monitoring to maintain production reliability. His background in both accounting and computer science gives him a practical, metrics-driven approach to engineering trade-offs and operational decisions. Although not a prolific public GitHub presence, his impact is evident in long-tenured delivery across complex supply-chain platforms.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting and Computer Science at University of Canterbury