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Lawrence Cheng - Software Engineer II in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lawrence Cheng

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms

MyVestUC BerkeleySan Francisco Bay Area, CA6 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend/platform-focused engineer who builds scalable onboarding and data ingestion pipelines for complex client data formats, emphasizing staged validation, idempotent job boundaries, and safe rollouts behind feature flags. Strong in production diagnostics (Kibana/Logstash, SQL, debugger traces) with a concrete example of finding a regression causing incorrect Tax Loss Harvesting alert counts within a day, and experienced enabling both engineers and customer-facing teams through docs, runbooks, and technical walkthroughs.

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Key Strengths

  • Takes prototypes to production via staged pipeline design (ingestion → transform → validate → persist)
  • Cross-functional alignment across product, architecture/platform, and frontend via design reviews and clear specs
  • Builds scalable, safe rollouts using feature flags and detailed error reporting/logging
  • Systematic real-time incident triage using live signals (error rate/latency), replayable inputs, and containment strategies
  • Rapid root-cause analysis across logs, SQL, and debugging (identified a production regression within a day)
  • Effective technical enablement for engineers through architecture/code-path/API walkthroughs and interactive workshops
  • Improves customer adoption by equipping customer-facing teams with documentation, runbooks, and diagnosable telemetry

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Experience

Software Engineer IIMyVest · Jul 2022 – Present
Software Engineer IMyVest · Aug 2020 – Jul 2022
Software Engineering InternAtlassian · Jun 2019 – Aug 2019internship
Software Engineering InternUpthere · Jun 2017 – Aug 2017internship

Education

UC Berkeleybachelor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)

Awards

  • UCSC Hacks Winner - Food Analyzer
  • Patent: US20160249838 - CO2 Wearable Device

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

Wearable sensorsCO2 monitoringRespiratory health monitoring

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Lawrence ChengMid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms