Sherman Cheung
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSherman Cheung is a seasoned software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building backend systems and Android features for large-scale consumer products. Currently on Google's YouTube Premium and previously on Business Communications and Phone Identity teams, he has driven measurable impact—such as a ~70% reduction in RBM first message latency that earned a Google-wide Perfy Award. His background includes shipping high-profile user-facing Android work at Yelp and full-stack features at Amazon, giving him fluency across Java, Kotlin, Go, and distributed backend services. A UC San Diego computer engineering graduate, Sherman combines end-to-end ownership with cross-product collaboration to enable platform integrations and privacy-compliant data workflows. He pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of optimizing cost and latency at scale, and maintains a personal website and GitHub for additional projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (15)
code-review5
python5
gerrit5
android-client5
javascript5
happy5
extensible4
kotlin4
react4
android4
developer-tools3
nextjs3
sdk3
ios2
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shertle/shertle.github.io
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactnextjs
shertle/CarCache
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 15 days
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