Zhongheng Cheng
Senior Associate
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolZhongheng Cheng is a software engineer and Columbia MS candidate in Computer Engineering with four years of practical experience building scalable, performance-conscious applications across finance, healthcare, and research settings. Currently a Senior Associate at SoftBank in Tokyo, he blends full-stack development experience from Healthi AI with Python engineering foundations honed at Higgs Asset Management. Passionate about machine learning and large language models, he contributed to Red Hen Lab through Google Summer of Code to advance frame blending techniques for LLM-driven systems. With a strong academic record (3.9/4.0 at Columbia, 3.7/4.0 at Zhejiang University), Zhongheng bridges rigorous research thinking and production-focused implementation. He’s known for optimizing code paths for scalability and for integrating ML models into real-world products, bringing a pragmatic yet research-minded approach to engineering problems.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic Information Engineering, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic Information Engineering, 3.7/4.0 at Zhejiang University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
json10
fastapi10
python10
json-schema10
async10
swagger10
asyncio10
redoc10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
asgi10
starlette10
pydantic10
high-performance10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Zhongheng-Cheng/fastapi
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Contributions:44 pushes, 28 branches in 3 months
Zhongheng-Cheng/gsoc2024-frame-blending
May 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:43 PRs, 172 pushes, 13 branches in 4 months
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