Roger Cheng
Contributor at Self-guided Education
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Cheng is a veteran software engineer with over a decade of experience designing developer-facing APIs and platform features, primarily from a long tenure in Microsoft’s Windows and Silverlight teams. He has deep expertise in text rendering, input systems, API consistency, and cross-platform compatibility, having shipped features for Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Phone native game platforms. Since leaving Microsoft he’s pursued self-guided learning and independent engineering work, contributing technical articles to Hackaday and exploring non-Microsoft stacks and embedded-friendly solutions. He combines meticulous attention to API design and backwards compatibility with a practical, tinkerer’s mindset—building, sharing, and learning from hands-on projects. Based in Los Angeles and willing to relocate, he’s seeking a fresh challenge that leverages his systems-level experience and collaborative problem-solving. An often-overlooked strength is his experience balancing platform uniformity with real-world device constraints, from ARM-specific quirks to international text rendering.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
robotics10
z8010
commodore10
rover10
sega-genesis10
hardware10
robot10
3d-printing10
arduino-library10
6800010
composite10
8-bit10
bit10
retrocomputing10
arcade10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Roger-random/angular-tour-of-heroes
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
Roger-random/cadquery_tests
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:182 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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