Daniel Cheng

Engineering Manager | Front-end | Full-stack | Back-end | Javascript | React | Vue | Typescript | PHP | SQL | Web3 | Blockchain | E-Commerce

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Software engineer. When i'm not working on projects I enjoy snowboarding, hiking trails, and cooking new and exciting recipes i come across!

Experience

  • Trader Interactive (Remote)
    • Engineering Manager
      Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

      Listings, Home & Search - Marketplace Homepage - Marketplace Search Results Page - Marketplace Listings Product

    • Technical Lead
      May 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Powersports - Lead scrum rituals and gave technical updates to team - Mentor jr engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and regular check ins. - Collaborate with product and design as the technical expert to plan projects. - Address major bugs - maintain both legacy and modern storefront webpages.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Sep 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      RvTrader BoatMart Powersports - Updated legacy storefront webpages from php view achitecture to modern Vue3 frontend stack - Support dealer account managers with reported site issues - Created documentation for maintaining both legacy and modern applications. - Mentored junior engineers

  • Freelance Software Developer at Self-employed
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Software Development Engineer II at Dapper Labs
    Jun 2022 - Feb 2023 · 9 mos

    Flow Developer Experience - Maintain core developer tools for the Flow ecosystem - Create Flow onboarding applications for new developers - Engaged with community developers for feedback and updates - Create Flow scaffold applications to help easily launch new Flow projects - Notable open source projects: - Flow browser IDE application: https://github.com/onflow/flow-playground - Flow tutorial onboarding dApp: https://github.com/onflow/kitty-items - Flow documentation developer portal: https://github.com/onflow/developer-portal - Flow web dApp scaffold: https://github.com/onflow/scaffold-flow

  • Wayfair (Full-time · 3 yrs 8 mos)
    • Software Engineer II
      Apr 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Built customer and supplier facing features using PHP, MSSQL, Javascript and React to ensure the successful launch of “Tried and True’”, Wayfair’s incentivized review capture program. - Refactored third party review capture integrations from a manual workflow to an automatic script using PHP, MSSQL, and Jenkins. - Mentored L1 engineers and led group discussions on weekly topics in a company engineering mentorship program. - Deprecated legacy data management admin tool and led the development of replacement service using Python libraries. - Upgrading core feature monolith scripts from daily automated tasks to event-based microservice using Java libraries to support review-opportunity gene

    • Software Engineer I
      Nov 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - Worked on abstracting business logic from legacy monolith scripts to separate automated jobs in core review service codebase. - Designed Supplier-Funded Incentivized Review program’s backend skeleton and SQL table structure as Backend Lead for the project’s launch. - Led scrum ritual meetings and regularly communicated engineering project updates to business stakeholders.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Rica Recycling
    Dec 2017 - Jul 2018 · 8 mos

    - Increased worker productivity by developing React.js and Redux application that connects to the EBay Orders API to reconcile completed orders and calculates client payouts. - Ported static HTML5 pages from legacy website to a new single page application using React.js, Redux, and CSS3. - Built company employee application using using React.js and Ruby on Rails with features including portal login, listing inventory, and order consolidation.