Yi Cheng
Senior Software Engineer, Product And Solution Architect at Shanghai Aleph Technologies
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Cheng is a senior software engineer and product/solution architect with 18 years of experience and 11 years in senior technical leadership roles, now based in San Jose. He designs and delivers large-scale retail SaaS platforms (OMS, WMS, RDS) and a PaaS layer used by top 100 retail brands in China, and previously led architecture and optimization teams for Alibaba Hema’s new retail systems. His background spans telecom and big data analytics—building Hadoop/Spark ETL libraries, simulation platforms, and real-time protocol processing systems—bridging presales, delivery, and productization. Comfortable moving between hands-on backend engineering and strategic solution design, he has a track record of winning and delivering complex enterprise deals and scaling cross-functional teams. Notably, he began his career in game AI, a detail that highlights his long-standing roots in algorithmic problem solving and systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
api-client9
generator9
sdk9
rest9
sql9
api9
database9
rest-api9
cpp9
embedded9
rust8
clickhouse8
dbms8
openapi8
cloud-native8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phillipcheng/ereminder
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:222 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 5 years 11 months
phillipcheng/log.analysis
Nov 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:325 commits, 75 PRs, 282 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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