Tim Cheung
Founder & Software Engineer at Zoid
London, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarTim Cheung is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-facing and scalable web and desktop applications from London. He has led migrations to modern stacks and TypeScript, shipped features and performance improvements at Deliveroo and FACEIT, and now runs Zoid where he builds Repeek—a browser extension with over one million users—alongside client projects using TypeScript, Node.js and Next.js/React. A pragmatic full‑stack developer, Tim has hands-on experience with Electron apps, design systems, CI/CD automation and monorepos, and has contributed meaningful front-end and build tooling improvements to open-source projects like redux-actions and the Meru Gmail desktop app. He combines product-minded engineering with practical UX focus, often improving developer workflows (linting, build pipelines, PR previews) while shipping polished interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
electron10
testing10
css10
redux10
npm9
webpack9
linux9
babel69
windows9
webpacker9
babel-core9
macos9
babeljs9
application8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
redux-utilities/redux-actions
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Flux Standard Action utilities for Redux.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 11 reviews, 62 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim made significant contributions to the `redux-actions` repository, focusing on refactoring the build process and adding new functionality. They implemented UMD builds, refactored the build process to use npm scripts and Babel, and addressed bugs by omitting payloads and removing FSA checks. The user also updated dependencies and improved the test suite by formatting files and adding test coverage.
standard-actionreactreduxfluxflux-standard-action
timche/meru
Apr 2016 - Aug 2022
:postbox: Nifty Gmail desktop app for macOS, Linux & Windows
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 releases, 23 reviews, 798 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the front-end and UI aspects of the Electron-based Gmail desktop application. They focused on modifying and refactoring the codebase for better styling, incorporating features such as account switching, and fixing user interface elements. The user also introduced and implemented linting tools like ESLint and Stylelint, alongside the integration of features like context menus, enhancing the overall user experience of the application. Furthermore, they refactored the project structure and updated dependencies.
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