# Desmond Cheong

> Emptystack engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/desmondcheong

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. —Bruce Lee

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty and become wind. —Guru Laghima

More details at desmondcheong.com

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Eventual
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Whatever it takes.

### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
All was forgiven in the name of speed.

### Head Teaching Assistant for CSCI1270 Database Management Systems @ Brown University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Database pedagogy at Brown has never recovered from us. Good.

### Upstream Linux Kernel Contributor @ The Linux Foundation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Probably fixed more concurrency errors in the Linux kernel than I added, but no one really knows.

### Teaching Assistant for DSI1050 Data Engineering @ Brown University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States
I TA-ed this course because they told me I could not take it as an undergrad.

### Data Science Intern @ INTELLLEX
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Singapore

### Teaching Assistant for CSCI1450 Probability for Computing and Data Analysis @ Brown University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States

### Business Development Intern @ Findify
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

### Part-time Course Instructor @ Tinkertanker
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Singapore

### Specialist, Tank Leader @ Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Singapore

### Research Intern @ DSO National Laboratories
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Singapore


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Brown University

### Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level in H2 Physics, H2 Chemistry, H2 Mathematics, H3 History
Raffles Institution


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/desmondcheongzx
- Portfolio: https://www.desmondcheong.com/
- Portfolio: https://desmondcheong.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29