Shang-wen Cheng
Principal Software Systems Engineer at Anduril Industries
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolShang-wen Cheng is a Principal Software Systems Engineer with 11+ years of experience building safety-critical and self-healing systems, currently driving systems engineering at Anduril after leading software safety and autonomy validation at Aurora. With deep roots in research (PhD from Carnegie Mellon) and hands-on spacecraft and autonomy work at JPL and Uber ATG, he blends formal architectural thinking with pragmatic infrastructure skills across Linux, MySQL, Java, and web platforms. He has led ISO 26262 tailoring, safety case development, SOTIF analyses, and novel methods to constrain neural network behavior—translating rigorous safety arguments into operational processes. Known for tooling and automation, his past projects include a JPL StateChart Autocoder and cloud telemetry dashboards, revealing a habit of turning complex verification needs into reusable engineering artifacts. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs academic rigor with production-grade system design to reduce residual risk in high-stakes, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Information Sciences, B.S. Computer Information Sciences at Florida State UniversityPh.D. Software Engineering, Ph.D. Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (28)
sysml10
pyspark10
petastorm10
pyarrow9
evaluation9
pytorch9
datasets9
pure-python9
parquet9
python8
deep-learning8
docker-compose8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
docker-image7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forbearer/petastorm
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:59 pushes, 23 branches in 27 days
forbearer/grunt-relative-root
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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