# Cheng Gong > Senior Software Engineer at Rippling Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cheng Generalist full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience driving scalable software products from concept to launch. Broad perspective with tenure at startups ranging from 1 to 1000s of employees. Leading and executing 0 to 1 product engineering with high ownership and impact. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform. Senior software engineer leading the Employee Experience team under the HR umbrella. Our team's scope includes Learning Management System (LMS), Surveys, Talent Signal, and News Feed. • Technical lead for team's product integration in Rippling AI, a business-critical cross-functional product with executive and director-level visibility. • Built multiple iterations of Talent Signal, Rippling's first AI-powered product, from 0 to 1, in collaboration with the Applied Machine Learning team. • Critical contributor to multiple major LMS feature launches such as Custom Course Builder and Learning Paths. • Onboarded and mentored engineers ranging from intern to staff level as team size grew from 4 to 8. Conducted 50+ interviews annually. • Only engineer on both oncall rotations for team, covering every product in scope. Resolved hundreds of alerts, errors, and security and support tickets. ### Solo Founder @ Manyfest Jan 2023 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States Manyfest is a social journaling app for recording and celebrating life events with close friends. Independently created and launched Manyfest from the ground up. Wore multiple hats spanning true full-stack engineering, UI/UX design, product strategy, and growth marketing. • Designed and implemented fully-featured iOS app written in SwiftUI and backwards-compatible, scalable API written in Express.js and TypeScript, integrating Apple, AWS, and Twilio services. • Bootstrapped growth to 100s of users with 1000s of journal entries. • Prototyped and iterated on user feedback to build and release several major product revisions. ### Founding Engineer @ Sparkwise Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Sparkwise provides professional development via immersive online trainings. First pre-seed engineer hire, synthesized business and technical constraints for founders and other stakeholders. • Architected core business-critical API with Express.js, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL for managing 1000s of users and 100Ks of generated objects that previously spanned multiple ad-hoc datastores. • Created reusable foundation for company's web applications by designing and implementing dashboard for managing customer data with React and TypeScript. • Established team-wide development environment, automated CI/CD pipeline, and scalable infrastructure with Docker on GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions, and AWS Fargate. ### Software Engineer @ Carta Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Carta helps startups, employees, and investors manage equity. Engineer on the Capitalization and Reporting team, worked with product and business stakeholders to extend core data models and services. • Refactored, maintained, and migrated multiple legacy codebases and systems with APIs and views with millions of downstream users and transactions. • Shaped product roadmap by aligning domain knowledge and technical expertise. ### Software Engineer @ Serenade Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Serenade enables developers to code with voice. First engineer hire, focused on product and process. • Planned and implemented desktop app features and extensions for editors and browsers with cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, and Linux with Electron, Webpack, React, TypeScript, and Sass. • Scaled infrastructure from a single container to fully distributed with Docker Swarm and AWS. • Established process and tooling as team grew to 8, including feature branches, code reviews, and alerts. ### Software Engineer @ Asana Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States Asana builds software to “enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.” • Collaborated closely with product, design, and data science functions to build and iterate features for billing flows, premium tiers, and customer organization admin console with TypeScript and Scala. • Built internal APIs for a new e-commerce flow and a domain data migration system. • Rotated regularly as one of only 12 primary on-call engineers entrusted with the responsibility of the web app's deployment and release lifecycle, triaging and resolving incidents affecting millions of users. ### Software Engineer @ Minerva Project Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States Minerva is an innovative university with real-time seminars and pedagogical tools for faculty and students. • Built and deployed microservices with Docker containers in AWS. • Implemented server-side APIs with Django and Python, and client-side features with Electron, Backbone, Marionette, React, and Sass. ### Member of Technical Staff | Computer Science 50 @ Harvard University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States CS50 is Harvard’s introductory computer science course, with hundreds of undergraduates enrolled annually, as well as offered for free via edX to 1M+ students. I was a part-time undergraduate teaching fellow with significant individual responsibilities. • Built a uniform Linux virtual machine development environment for students and staff. • Developed a Chrome extension for enhanced video playback for lectures. • Wrote canonical lecture notes, taught at office hours, and contributed to course materials. • Designed graphics for web and print, including handouts, posters, and name tags. • Produced educational media including videography and photography. ## Education ### AB in Computer Science, Minor in Economics Harvard University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ummcheng --- Source: https://flows.cv/cheng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cheng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22