# Leon Cheung

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Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leoncheung

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Product Development @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Storage infrastructure team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pinecone
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer - PE/infra @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Greater Seattle Area
Serverless Computing Team
- Expanded worker platform to support running asynchronous workloads on large shared pools of hhvm (Hack), django (Python), whatsapp-erlang, and C++ workers.
- Increased capacity usage efficiency by improving the autoscaling behavior of the worker clusters.
- Implemented end to end security tooling, allowing customers to manage fine-grained permissions and identity propagation
- See these resources for more context on the team: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/08/17/production-engineering/async/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613155

### Production Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington
PE Storage Platform
- Experimented with low-level switches to control the behavior of write cache on disks used for Facebook's medium term blob storage.
- Demonstrated significant utilization and latency wins on the production system

### Research Intern @ Information Sciences Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Marina del Rey, California
Natural language processing, machine translation of low-resource languages

### Computer Science (Intro to AI and Probabilistic Reasoning) Tutor @ Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla, CA

### Software Engineer @ Neural Interaction Lab at UC San Diego
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
Maintain and develop the Prometheus webapp with Professor Todd Coleman, to aid in researching time to make decisions when compared to potential risk, using Django (Python) and AngularJS.

### Summer Research Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pasadena, California
I continue ongoing development of CARACaS (Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing), which is a framework designed to build systems of multi-agent coordinating and cooperating robots.

### Content Creator @ Zeal Learning
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Creating video hints to help students grades K-8 with math, writing, and reading comprehension questions.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### High School
Burlingame High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05