# Jerry Cheng

> Staff Software Engineer at Google

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jerrycheng

Passionate tech lead with a wealth of experience designing, implementing, and optimizing exabyte-scale search solutions, storage systems, data frameworks, and high-traffic backend systems to solve real-world problems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Gmail Backend Team -> Chat Search Team -> Chat Backend Team

### Undergraduate Student Instructor: Data Structures @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA
Teaching Assistant for CS61B: Data Structures offered by the Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. 

Responsible for:
- Teaching multiple ~30 student discussion and lab sections, as well as holding office hours and review sessions.
- Creating and maintaining the latest grading infrastructure, which automatically analyzes student homework, lab, and project submissions and provides feedback.
- Writing midterm problems and aiding in the development of homework assignments and projects.
- Providing one-to-one assistance to struggling students.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
Intern on the Feed Ranking Team, which ranks News Feed stories shown to users.

-	Created a video classifier that uses text and frame image features to classify videos into labels. Currently classifying all videos uploaded to Facebook.
-	Tested, implemented, and analyzed a series of new features for the News Feed ranking algorithm.
-	Created and augmented a number of internal tools, most notably a tool that displays the most important recently uploaded videos on Facebook along with relevant statistics.

### Software Engineering Intern @ TubeMogul, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Emeryville, CA
-	Won 1st place at the annual company-wide Hackathon as a part of a team that created a mobile app that tracks campaign statistics in real time, built using AngularJS, Node.js, MySQL, and Ionic.
-	Created an automated tool that takes screenshots of customers’ ads in action using Java. Specifically, the tool determines which ads need a screenshot, then visits the relevant URL, sends a marked request back to TubeMogul servers, which ensures the ad is displayed, and then takes a screenshot.
-	Created a dashboard that displays important internal statistics to engineers in real time using AngularJS and a server that communicates using SSE with Dropwizard.
-	Created a replica of the production environment that runs on virtual machines. This replica enabled engineers to test software changes locally in a reliable fashion. Wrote a 6-page guide, along with bash scripts to streamline setup.

### Course Reader for Data Structures Course @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA
Graded homework assignments and projects for "CS61B: Data Structures" under the coordination of Professor Shewchuk. Also held office hours to help answer questions from students in the course.

### Research Assistant @ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Gesture Recognition Research Project

- Employed as a research project assistant by Head of Department Cao Jiannong at the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Wrote a survey paper on the techniques, challenges, and applications of real-time human-computer interaction using camera-based gesture recognition.

### Research Assistant @ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Rocking Filter Research Project

- Interned as a research assistant at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under counsel and supervision of Professor W. Jin.
- Tested and analyzed the effectiveness of rocking filters under various conditions: temperature, stress, angles of twist, etc.


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

### High School
International Christian School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jerry-cheng-243b1181

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Last updated: 2026-04-12