Stanley Cheung
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolStanley Cheung is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years building robust backend systems and test automation, currently contributing to Google's gRPC project from Mountain View. He has deep experience across language ecosystems—particularly Java, Go, PHP and TypeScript—having improved core integrations, observability tests, and code generation for high-profile open-source projects like grpc, grpc-java, grpc-go and protobuf. At Google he focuses on making distributed RPC tooling more reliable and measurable, adding metrics, interop tests, and build automation that keep large systems in sync. His prior roles as principal engineer at startups spun out and acquired by Coupons.com and early engineering at Oracle show a mix of product-focused delivery and low-level systems work. Not obviously apparent from his title, Stanley often works at the intersection of language-specific runtime quirks and cross-language interoperability, fixing subtle PHP extension and protocol buffer edge cases. He holds M.Eng and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from MIT and brings both research-grade rigor and practical production experience to open-source and enterprise codebases.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng, B.S., Computer Science, M.Eng, B.S., Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (46)
google-api10
docker10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
web-token10
microservices-application10
authentication10
data-serialization10
dockers10
java10
serialization10
javas10
php10
code-generation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-web
Nov 2016 - Nov 2021
gRPC for Web Clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 58 reviews, 488 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stanley primarily contributed to the gRPC-Web project, specifically focusing on code generation and the gRPC gateway implementation. The user's commits include modifications to the code generator, base client and intercptors, adding features for generating method descriptors and implementing TypeScript support. The user also made updates to the Node gRPC server and examples, showcasing the implementation of various gRPC calls.
grpcjavascriptgrpc-webtypescriptclients
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 PRs, 43 comments, 8 issues in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stanley contributed to the PHP implementation of Protocol Buffers, focusing on PHP 7.0 support and fixing related ZTS (Zend Thread Safety) errors. Their work involved modifying core internal message handling, repeated field processing, and encoding/decoding mechanisms within the PHP extension. The changes also included updates to test utilities and macro adjustments to ensure proper function. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's internal structure and the PHP environment.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.