Weijia Cheng
Software Engineer III at Wealthfront
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeijia Cheng is a Software Engineer III based in Boston with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across fintech and enterprise backup domains. At Wealthfront he progressed from SE II to SE III, contributing to production services; prior roles include implementing scalable VM backup logic in Scala and native Windows agents at Rubrik. He combines backend systems and tooling expertise with a strong foundation in data validation and build automation from early projects at Bank of America and public-sector internships. An active open-source contributor, he improves ebook processing pipelines in the well-regarded Standard Ebooks toolset, addressing encoding, typography, and device compatibility issues. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and attention to data integrity, he pairs a CS and Economics degree (3.85 GPA) with a "ora et labora" work ethic that surfaces in both product-quality fixes and infrastructure improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkHigh School, 4.75 weighted (3.96 unweighted), High School, 4.75 weighted (3.96 unweighted) at Centennial High School
English, Chinese, Greek
Github Skills (6)
docbook10
epub10
ebooklib10
regex10
python10
text-processing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
standardebooks/tools
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
The Standard Ebooks toolset for producing our ebook files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Weijia primarily contributes to the `standardebooks/tools` repository by modifying Python scripts related to ebook processing and formatting. Their work includes fixing bugs and implementing improvements related to spelling modernization, typography adjustments, and Kobo build compatibility. They also addressed issues like obscured names and character encoding in the text processing pipelines. These contributions aim to improve the quality and functionality of the ebook generation process.
ebookebookspythonebook-filesepub
standardebooks/leo-tolstoy_short-fiction_louise-maude_aylmer-maude_nathan-haskell-dole_constance-garnett_j-d-duff_l
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
Epub source for the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Fiction, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Nathan Haskell Dole, Constance Garnett, J. D. Duff, Leo Weiner, R. S. Townsend, Hagberg Wright, Benjamin Tucker, Everyman’s Library, Vladimir Chertkov, and Isabella Fyvie Mayo
Contributions:11 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
ebooksbenjamintranslatedhaskelltranslated-by
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