Yixing Cheng
Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYixing Cheng is a Staff Software Engineer based in California with 12 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems for financial services and infrastructure companies. He is proficient across the full stack—React/Angular front ends, Java/Scala back ends, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Kafka and containerized deployments with Docker and Terraform—having led migrations to AWS and modernized legacy platforms. Known for pragmatic architecture and strong hands-on delivery, he has implemented microservices, async inter-service communication, and CI/CD pipelines at firms like FINRA, Quantcast, VMware, and Broadcom. He combines rigorous engineering practices (TDD, code review culture) with product-focused thinking to ship reliable trading and API services at scale. An uncommon strength is his history of translating on-premise legacy systems to cloud-native stacks while preserving data integrity and observability.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at University of South Carolina
Github Skills (86)
seek10
mount10
data-storage10
blobs10
api9
fuse9
blob-storage9
encryption9
gridfs9
object-storage9
storage9
gateway9
disk9
persistent9
replication9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
YixingCheng/WordPuzzle
May 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
YixingCheng/YahooFinanceTradingSystem
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 28 days
traderfinancemarket-datastockssell
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