# Cheney Wu

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cheney

Hi there! I’m Cheney, a solution-driven full-stack engineer with a passion for tackling difficult problems and continuous learning. I thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments, using my skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, React, and more to build user-centric products and solve complex challenges.

## Work Experience
### Software Design Engineer @ Edge R&D
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Consulting firm delivering full-stack solutions across government and enterprise clients.

Client Customer Onboarding Web Application (React, TypeScript, .NET, Azure)
• Built 70%+ of core UI using reusable React components, reducing feature delivery time by ~35%
• Designed and deployed Azure Functions from scratch to automate reporting pipelines and securely deliver scheduled data
• Integrated Azure Maps, DocuSign, and payment APIs across the full stack to streamline onboarding workflows
• Worked directly with client PMs to refine requirements, define scope, and ensure alignment with business needs
• Implemented robust validation across client and server layers, reducing invalid submissions and improving user success rates
• Added unit and integration test coverage for authentication and payment flows using xUnit
• Provisioned and managed cloud resources using Terraform to ensure consistent environments

Internal Data Processing Platform (C#, Blazor, Azure, Terraform)
• Delivered a reusable batch processing engine later adopted across multiple internal and client projects
• Built Azure infrastructure using Terraform modules to support automated deployments
• Contributed to both Blazor UI and .NET backend development, modernizing legacy code and reducing tech debt
• Investigated and resolved background job failures, improving throughput and overall system reliability

NYC Emergency Rental Assistance Program (C#, Razor Pages, Azure SQL Server)
• Optimized SQL Server queries and backend workflows for a high-traffic system serving 400K+ households
• Developed responsive Razor Pages features that improved navigation and staff processing efficiency
• Refactored RESTful C# APIs for third-party integrations, reducing timeout rates by ~30%
• Supported releases and production issues for a mission-critical state application, maintaining SLA uptime

### Software Engineer @ OSLabs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Created a library of reusable React components that cut frontend development time by 30% and improved scalability  
- Utilized Redux Toolkit for state management, increasing development efficiency and facilitating easy scalability as the application grew  
- Launched a high-performance RESTful application with Node.js and Express, creating a real-time data streaming platform for Kafka cluster connectivity, enhancing data processing speed by 20%  
- Refactored and modularized codebase, reducing code volume by 23% and improving maintainability and performance  
- Engineered robust data models in PostgreSQL that decreased query response times by 15%, ensuring reliable application performance under load

### Snaps | AI Article Caching App @ Open Source
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Integrated third-party APIs, including OpenAI and AI-based translation services, to drive innovative features that increased user engagement by 25–40%  
- Developed modular frontend components using React, enhancing reusability and scalability of the application architecture by 30%  
- Implemented Redux for centralized state management, improving data flow efficiency and application performance  
- Conducted comprehensive code reviews and refactoring, simplifying scalability and maintenance, reducing bug reports by 25%

### Choreify | Productivity/Task Tracking App @ Open Source
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Achieved 65% component coverage with React Testing Library, ensuring application reliability and stability through rigorous testing 
- Boosted test case coverage by 20% with Jest, improving overall application reliability and code quality by 15% 
- Redesigned the application with intuitive UX principles, increasing user engagement by 35% and reducing support inquiries by 30%

### Polyglot | AI Live-Translation Extension @ Open Source
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Created a Google Chrome extension using event handling to detect highlighted text in real time, improving user interaction efficiency by 40%  
- Designed an intuitive popup interface for seamless translation, eliminating the need to switch to external tools, enhancing user convenience by 35%  
- Integrated AI-based translation services via REST API, ensuring accurate and efficient translations across multiple languages, improving accessibility and usability by 40%

### Principal Dancer @ Shen Yun Performing Arts
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2027

### Undergraduate Coursework in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University

### Computer Software Engineering
Codesmith
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Bachelor's degree
Fei Tian College Northern Campus
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cheney-wu

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Last updated: 2026-04-01