Zach Cheung is a Bay Area–born Lead Product Designer with 13 years of experience crafting human-centered solutions across startups and larger organizations, currently shaping product at Lyra Health. With an MS in Human Factors and a background in MIS, he blends rigorous research, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to solve meaningful problems for people in need. He pairs product design leadership with hands-on technical fluency—his open-source backend contributions include improving database support and storage integrations for the gobackup CLI project—helping bridge design intent and reliable engineering. Known for approaching design as a purposeful service, he brings a pragmatic, empathetic perspective that surfaces non-obvious user needs and operational constraints.
🗄 CLI tool for backup your databases, files to cloud storages in schedully.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 84 commits, 24 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the gobackup project. Their commits focused on enhancing database support by adding socket configurations for MySQL, Redis, and PostgreSQL. They also addressed bug fixes, such as resolving an issue with the default compressor type, and optimized file storage by integrating directory support in various storage backends like Local, S3, GCS, OSS, SFTP, WebDAV, and FTP. Additional improvements were made to the logging and error handling mechanisms.
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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Zach Cheung - Lead Product Designer at Lyra Health