# Evangeline Cheng > Building agents @ Figma Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/evangeline Self taught engineer. I care about building intuitive and performant products users love. Find my writing here: https://substack.com/@evangelinecheng/posts ## Work Experience ### Engineering Manager @ Figma Jan 2026 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Making agents better at sweating the pixels ### Staff Software Engineer @ Gather Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area Lead of the virtual world team and its products - Rebuilt our maps architecture from the ground up as IC - Started managing virtual world team of 5 ICs, eventually leading all of product engineering for 2.0 launch ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gather Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area Worked all over the product, including: - Rearchitected calculating how connected you are to another user's AV into small, composable and testable units. We used to joke that making any change to this part of the codebase would cause a SEV-0. This no longer happens. - Migrated our largest Firestore collections into Postgres (with zero downtime!) over the course of 5 months. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pencil Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Singapore As the frontend Tech Lead, I - Architected and led a team of 5 to craft a pixel perfect React frontend. Built features in a complex, distributed backend. - Designed the headhunting and hiring process from ground zero to grow founding team. Placed 2 senior engineers within 3 months of kickoff. - Created a dogfooding environment to foster an user-focused culture across all functions. React/Angular, Redux/NGRX, Tailwind CSS, NodeJS, Python, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS ### Software Engineer @ Pencil Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Singapore We believe that AI will be as fundamental to creativity in the next 100 years as the pencil was in the last 100. We are building the world’s first creative AI for generating digital content and advertising. ### Software Engineer @ Entrepreneur First Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom - Built internal tools that support thousands of entrepreneurs a year. Clojure, ClojureScript, Reagent/React, Re-frame, Bootstrap, Datomic, Postgresql, Heroku ### Associate @ Entrepreneur First Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Singapore Entrepreneur First brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London and Singapore. We fund individuals and help build cofounding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors. To date we have helped over 350 individuals build 80 companies with a total valuation of over $1 billion. Our major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m only 18 months after the Founders met on the EF programme. For more information about Entrepreneur First, or to apply to join our next cohort, please visit www.joinef.com ### Summer Analyst @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available. We have been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years. Our business has been built upon our core principle of putting our clients'​ interests first. ### Registrar Intern @ SINGAPORE TYLER PRINT INSTITUTE Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 STPI is a dynamic creative workshop and contemporary art gallery based in Singapore. Established in 2002, STPI is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting artistic experimentation in the mediums of print and paper and has become one of the most cutting-edge destinations for contemporary art in Asia. STPI sits alongside National Gallery Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum as part of the national Visual Arts Cluster of leading institutions in the region. ## Education ### Bachelor’s in Quantitative Finance Singapore Management University Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evangeline-cheng --- Source: https://flows.cv/evangeline JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/evangeline/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01