# Chris Cheng

> Principal Software Engineer at Roblox

Location: Saratoga, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrischeng1

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### CTO @ Copper Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managing a team of dedicated engineers to implement CRM for G Suite with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction.

### PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ Zynga
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
* Designed basic object model for representing game entities and concepts on the server side with schema
validated representation of complex game configuration data.
* Implement layered service logic for handling client to server API calls by separating parsing, application, and
presentation logic in PHP.
* Transitioned from individual contributor to leading a small team of engineers by advising on design decisions,
project scopes, and bug fixes.

### SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ DNA Games, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
* Implemented server side application logic for multiple games with a REST based API in Java.
* Made infrastructure changes to improve scalability by introducing a caching layer with delayed writes to a
sharded database.
* Worked closely with executive staff to provide detailed feature scopes to create predictable delivery dates.

### Senior Software Engineer @ 23andMe
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
* Developed automated inventory processing system with vendor to expedite sample testing.
* Helped maintain various features in Django including community forums, email updates, and survey results.
* Implemented features end to end starting with product specifications to wire-frames, database table design, application logic, HTML markup, CSS, and JavaScript.

### Software Engineer 3 @ eBay Inc
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
* Migrated eBay Motors Buying features to new eBay application framework.
* Worked with product management to define and trim feature requirements and estimate effort.
* Wrote Perl batch job to facilitate data migration for catalog on-boarding process.
* Modified catalog on-boarding scripts to optimize data loading and exporting times.

### Software Engineer 2 @ eBay Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
* Helped develop and maintain a Eclipse Plugin based item classification tool using Java SWT.
* Developed internally used ASP .NET/C# based web tool for managing Half.com buyer discount coupons.
* Worked with eBay's offshore team to distribute workload.

### Software Engineer 1 @ eBay Inc
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004
* Helped develop first version of a Java Swing based internal tool used to manage search related metadata.
* Maintained metadata publishing system for parametrized search feature using JCDB and XML
* Triaged and reassigned bugs to Java Developers, XSL Developers, Web Developers, and Data Managers.

### Software Engineer @ TV Leagues LLC
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005


## Education
### BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Monta Vista High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12