Wei Cheng
Principal Software Engineer at Grab
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Cheng is a Principal Software Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of industry experience and a deep background in computer networking, Go, and C++. He has progressed through technical leadership roles at Sea and now drives platform and infrastructure initiatives at Grab, blending research-grade rigor from a PhD with hands-on system design. His doctoral work on efficient 3D mesh compression and receiver-driven transfer protocols reflects a long-standing focus on high-performance data transfer and distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him for solving difficult networking and performance bottlenecks and for translating academic models into production-ready services. Comfortable across research, startup CTO duties, and scale-up engineering, he brings both architectural vision and pragmatic delivery. Fluent in turning protocol-level insights into resilient, low-latency services, he uniquely bridges academia and product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Civil Engineering, Bachelor Civil Engineering at Tongji UniversityMaster Computer Networking and Communication, Master Computer Networking and Communication at Fudan UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, English
Github Skills (30)
codec8
driver8
mediadevices8
bitcoin8
video-call8
cryptocurrency7
face-recognition7
binding7
streaming6
golang6
api6
webrtc6
ffi6
client-library6
voip6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rivercheng/view-dependent-progressive-mesh-streaming
May 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
rivercheng/webrtc
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
Contributions:5 releases, 7 pushes, 8 tags in 3 months
golangapiwebtransportwebrtcpure-go
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